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 24

2018 May 24

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  This moth was outside the door of the Elliott Building at UVic this morning:

 



Cyclophora dataria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   As requested (see story, May 23 morning) I put a number of Cabbage White caterpillars out today on some wild Brassica species, though I retained one and photographed it:

 

Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)  Jeremy Tatum