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 29

2018 May 29

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Most pug caterpillars feed on fltowers.  Here is one in the flower head of the dogwood Cornus stolonifera.  The adult moth ecloded (emerged) on June 13 (see posting of that date) and enabled Libby Avis to identify it as Eupithecia misturata.

Pug caterpillar Eupithecia misturata (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum

 

   Marie O’Shaughnessy writes:  This beautiful Western Tiger Swallowtail was photographed at Loon Bay, May 28th, while the tide was out. It appeared to be ingesting the salt water between the rocks on the mud-flats.

Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Yesterday, May 28, around 6:15 p.m. in the wind there was a West Coast Lady alongside the road on Mount Tolmie.  It was not too far from the concrete reservoir.