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 25

2019 May25

 

   Hauke Blanken sends a picture of a Silver-spotted Tiger Moth caterpillar from Galiano Island:

Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Hauke Blanken

 

   Morgan Davies sends a picture of a stink bug from Sidney:

 


Chlorochroa sp.  (uhleri maybe?) (Hem.: Pentatomidae)  Morgan Davies

 

    Jeremy Tatum sends a picture of a caterpillar from Swan Lake:


Sicya crocearia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

 

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

1 Eupithecia sp.

3 Nadata gibbosa (2 same as yesterday)

2 Panthea virginarius (same as yesterday)

3 Tyria jacobaeae

1 Venusia obsoleta

1 Apamea sordens

 


Apamea sordens (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

  Libby Avis writes from Port Alberni:  We are starting to get a few more things here now – three Melipotis jucunda two nights ago, Metarranthis duaria and Sphinx perelegans were the highlights. Also got our first Lacinipolia cuneata and Smerinthus last night.