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.

September 1 evening

2018 September 01 evening

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I found these ova in Layritz Park today, all surrounding a stem of the rush Juncus effusus.  I strongly suspect that they are Noctua pronuba.  I’ll retain a few for rearing, so that we can learn what they are.  Juncus is probably not their preferred foodplant – I expect the caterpillars will just wander off when they hatch, to see what they can find.  There are approximately 1450 eggs there.

Probably Noctua pronuba

(Lep.: Noctuidae)

Jeremy Tatum

Probably Noctua pronuba

(Lep.: Noctuidae)

Jeremy Tatum