INVERTEBRATE ALERT
This blog provides an informal forum for terrestrial invertebrate watchers to post recent sightings of interesting observations in the southern Vancouver Island region. Please send your sightings by email to Jeremy Tatum (tatumjb352@gmail.com). Be sure to include your name, phone number, the species name (common or scientific) of the invertebrate you saw, location, date, and number of individuals. If you have a photograph you are willing to share, please send it along. Click on the title above for an index of past sightings.The index is updated most days.

April 22 morning

2018 April 22 morning

 

   Gordon Hart writes:  I visited Francis/King Park yesterday and saw one Sara Orangetip Anthocharis sara, and a Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius. There were also several Mesoleuca gratulata flying. This was in the area across the road from the Nature House. At home in the Highlands, a Green Comma flew by, but I saw no other butterflies.

 

Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Jochen Moehr sends a picture of Lithophane petulca from Metchosin.

 


Lithophane petulca (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

   Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a caterpillar of the Silver-spotted Tiger Moth from Munn Road.

 

Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)

Jeremy Tatum