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.

July 16

2019 July 16

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin after a full moon and foggy morning merely:

 

1 Amorbia cuneanum

1 Hesperumia latipennis (from yesterday)

2 Nemoria darwiniata (one from yesterday)

and several micros in places inaccessible to the camera.

 




Amorbia cuneanum (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   This evening at 6:30 pm there were 4 Painted Ladies and a Red Admiral on top of Mount Tolmie.

   Gordon Hart writes: Today, Tuesday, July 16, Anne-Marie and I saw two Pine Whites flying very high up around the top of a Douglas Fir at Francis/King Park.