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.

July 16 morning

July 16 morning

 

   Here are some of Jochen Möhr’s recent moth photographs from Metchosin.  We give a huge thank you to Libby Avis for the identifications.

 


Nemoria darwiniata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Dasychira grisefacta (Lep.:  Erebidae – Lymantriinae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Caripeta divisata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Eulithis xylina (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Protitame subalbaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 


Callizzia amorata (Lep.: Uraniidae – Epipleminae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

 

 

   That’s enough for this morning – more this afternoon!