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.

June 22

2018 June 22

 

    Jochen Möhr sends a picture of a pug (Eupithecia sp.) from Metchosin.  This one seems so well marked that it would seem to be easy to identify.  But there are so many of these very similar pugs, and so much variation within each species, that it is hard to be sure of many of them.  Jeremy Tatum’s best guess at this one is Eupithecia annulata, but this is by no means certain.

 


Eupithecia sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Bryan Gates sends photographs of two dragonflies:

 

Probably Libellula forensis (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Bryan Gates

 

Probably Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Bryan Gates

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Panama Flats had lots of butterflies today, June 22.  There were a total of 63 Essex Skippers, 58 Cabbage Whites, 19 Lorquin’s Admirals, 5 Western Tiger Swallowtails, and 1 Pale Tiger Swallowtail.