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 22 evening

2019 July 22 evening


Erratum The “leafcutter bee Megachile” in this morning’s posting has now been corrected (thanks to Lincoln Best)  to “plasterer bee Colletes“.

   Bill Savale showed me the moth below in his Saanich apartment this morning:


Lacinipolia strigicollis (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum

 

 

 

And Jochen Möhr found an almost identical one in his haul in Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Amorbia cuneanum

2 Callizzia amorata

1 Campaea perlata

1 Clemensia umbrata

1 Eulithis xylina

1 Eupithecia annulata

1 Nadata gibbosa

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Perizoma curvilinea 

and many micros

 


Lacinipolia strigicollis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 


Campaea perlata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

 


Clemensia umbrata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae – Lithoniini) Jochen Möhr

 

 

 

 


Eupithecia annulata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr