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.

May 5 morning

2018 May 5 morning

 

   Reminder:  Monthly Butterfly Walk, top of Mount Tolmie, tomorrow, 1:00 pm.  All welcome.

 

   A Western Brown Elfin from Mill Hill photographed by Nathan Fisk:

Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Nathan Fisk

 

   And two moths from Rithet’s Bog, photographed by Jeremy Tatum:


Euceratia castella (Lep.: Plutellidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Peppered Moth Biston betularia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum