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 10

2018 May 10

 

   Jochen Moehr sends a photograph of a Silver-spotted Tiger Moth caterpillar from Metchosin:

 

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

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Yesterday, May 9 at 6:15 pm, there were no butterflies on the Mount Tolmie reservoir, but there was a Propertius Duskywing just outside the entrance to the reservoir, and a Painted Lady flying around the Jeffery Pine.

 

   Scott Gilmore writes from Lantzville:  My son caught a fly in the house on May 8th. It was suggested to me that it was from the family Clusiidae and I wonder if it might be Clusia occidentalis?   Jeremy Tatum replies:  If there are any experts on clusiids out there, please let us know!  (We are sure there must be one somewhere!)  In the meantime we can certainly label it as a clusiid (see those “partially infuscated” wings!), and probably Clusia occidentalis.

 

Druid fly, probably Clusia occidentalis (Dip.: Clusiidae) Scott Gilmore

 

Druid fly, probably Clusia occidentalis (Dip.: Clusiidae) Scott Gilmore