July 27 morning

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.

2019 July 27 morning

Val George writes: This Amblyptilia pica was in my garden in Oak Bay this morning, July 26. It was flying around some geraniums, which I understand is one of its caterpillar food plants. [Yes, it even has an English name – Geranium Plume Moth. Jeremy Tatum]