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 30

2018 October 30

 

   Val George writes:  Yesterday, October 29, I counted 26 of these guys on the walls of the Nature House at Goldstream Park.  

 

   Thanks to Libby Avis for confirming the photo as Autumnal Moth Epirrita autumnata.

 

Autumnal Moth Epirrita autumnalis (Lep.: Geometridae) Val George