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 19

2018 August 19

 

    More moth pictures from Metchosin, by Jochen Möhr.   Thanks to Libby Avis for help with the identifications.

 


Plemyria georgii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Oligia divesta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

 


Alucita montana (Lep.: Alucitidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   These moths should be careful not to wander into the Kemp Lake area, where Rosemary Jorna photographed the following fearful creature:

 


Eratigena duellica (Ara.: Agelenidae)  Rosemary Jorna