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.

November 10

2018 November 10

 

   Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a caddisfly from Metchosin, November 9.  Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying it as Halesochila taylori.

 



Halesochila taylori  (Tri.: Limnephilidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Libby writes from Port Alberni that she had two Mythimna unipuncta a couple of nights ago, and a Dargida procincta last week.

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a rather typical European Winter Moth Operophtera brumata from my Saanich apartment this morning, and, below it, another one, much more strongly marked, from UVic.

 

Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum