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 9 morning

2019 May 9 morning

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  A California Tortoiseshell was basking on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 6:00 pm yesterday.  As it often does, it was sitting on one of the whitish patches on the concrete.  Don’t let anyone tell you that butterflies live for only a few days.  It just ain’t true.

 

  Some more moth pictures by Jochen Möhr in Metchosin yesterday:

 


Cladara limitaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Feralia comstocki (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Panthea virginarius (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 



Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr


Hypena decorata (Lep.: Erebidae – Hypeninae)

Jochen Möhr