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 30

2019 Jul 30

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Biston betularia

1 Diachyris variabilis

1 Hesperumia sulphuraria

2 Homorthodes hanhami

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

8 Lophocampa argentata

3 Panthea virginarius

1 Schizura ipomoeae

 

No pictures taken.

 

   Dave Holden reports a Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina on Mount Tolmie yesterday.

 

  Jeremy Tatum photographed a spider outside his Saanich apartment:

 


Scotophaeus blackwalli (Ara.: Gnaphosidae)   Jeremy Tatum

 

   A miscellany of creatures from Cheryl Hoyle, which we shall post gradually as we either identify them or give up!

 

Unknown hymenopteran    Cheryl Hoyle

 

 


Xestoleptura crassipes (Col.: Cerambycidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 


Dolichovespula maculata (Hym.: Vespidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 


Dolichovespula maculata (Hym.: Vespidae)  Cheryl Hoyle