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 30 evening

2019 June 30 evening

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  At 6:30 pm this evening at the top of Christmas Hill were c8 Painted Ladies and a Grey Hairstreak. 

 

   Here’s another moth from Jochen Möhr’s haul in Metchosin this morning.

 


Spiramater lutra (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr