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.

August 4 morning

August 4 morning

 

   Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph obtained by Montana Stanley of the Sooke Region Museum of a Garden Tiger Moth at the Museum on August 2.

Garden Tiger Arctia caja (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Montana Stanley

 

   And Jochen Möhr has more moths from Metchosin. Thanks to Libby Avis for help with the identifications.


Oligia divesta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr


Eulithis xylina (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr


Nemoria darwiniata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Schizura ipomoeae Lep.: Notodontidae)

Jochen Möhr

 


Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae) Jochen Möhr


Lacinipolia strigicollis (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr