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 17 morning

2018 August 17 morning

 

   Aziza Cooper writes:   On Wednesday August 15, I saw these two moths across from McTavish Park and Ride at the northbound bus shelter along the east side of the Pat Bay Highway.

Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Aziza Cooper

 

 


Emmelina monodactyla (Lep.: Pterophoridae)  Aziza Cooper

 

   Interesting way in which the moth is holding its middle pair of legs.  The left one is held closely against the hind leg.  The right one is held closely against the foreleg.  At a casual glance it looks as though it has only four legs.