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.

May 8 morning

2019 May 8

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes: Kirsten Mills and I had a great day with butterflies yesterday.  We saw a Milbert’s Tortoiseshell on South Shawnigan Lake Road not far from Highway 1.   Then on Stebbings Road we saw a Two-banded Checkered [also known as Grizzled!- Jeremy] Skipper, two Mylitta Crescents, and a Grey Hairstreak.  Also, on Goldstream Heights drive we saw a Mourning Cloak.

 

Jochen Möhr’s moth records from Metchosin, morning of May 7:

 

8 Venusia obsoleta

3 Eupithecias

2 Behrensia conchiformis

2 Hydriomena manzanita

2 Melanolophia imitata

2 Orthosia transparens

One each of:

Anticlea vasiliata

Apamea cinefacta

Egira crucialis

Feralia comstocki

Lobophora nivigerata

Lophocampa maculata

Perizoma costiguttata

Pheosia californiaria

Phyllodesma americana

 


Eupithecia cretaceata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Apamea cinefacta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Egira crucialis/simplex (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Lophocampa maculata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae) Jochen Möhr