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.

October 6

2018 October 6

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   I saw about four Cabbage Whites over or near the cabbage fields at Island View Road today.

   Here is a picture of a moth that arose from a caterpillar found on Gumweed during the VNHS Butterfly Walk on September 2.   I released it today near to where the caterpillar was found at Island View Beach.  See Val’s photograph of the caterpillar on the September 2 evening posting.


Heliothis phloxiphaga Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum