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 9

2018 September 9

 

   Kirsten Mills writes:   On Thursday September 6 around 11:00 a.m. I saw a Red Admiral on blackberries in Uplands Park. It was close to where the Grey Catbird has been seen near Dorset Road.

 

   Mike Yip writes:  Green and Hoary Commas were common at Mount Washington on Tuesday September 4.   Several Cabbage Whites were seen in Nanoose Bay on Wednesday September 5.

Green Comma Polygonia faunus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Mike Yip

 

Green Comma Polygonia faunus (Lep.:  Nymphalidae)  Mike Yip

Hoary Comma Polygonia gracilis (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Mike Yip

 

 

   Thomas Barbin found the caterpillar below in the Goldstream campground on August 15.

 

American Lappet Moth Phyllodesma americana (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Thomas Barbin

 

American Lappet Moth Phyllodesma americana (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Thomas Barbin

   Jochen Möhr sends photographs of three moths from his Metchosin home last night.

 


Tetracis pallulata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Philedia punctomacularia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr