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.

June 7

2019 June 7

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Panthea virginarius

1 Tyria jacobaeae

2 Venusia obsoleta

 

   Val George found this White Satin Moth Leucoma salicis  on the wall at the entrance to the Swan Lake Nature House yesterday afternoon, June 6.

 

White Satin Moth Leucoma salicis (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)

Val George