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.

August 24

2019 August 24

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin yesterday morning August 23 (no pictures taken):

 

1 Campaea perlata

2 Drepanulatrix sp. 

1 Eulithis xylina 

2 Lacinipolia pensilis

2 Nemoria darwiniata

2 Neoalcis californiaria

2 Perizoma curvilinea

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria

 

   And this morning August 24, again no pics.

 

2 Eulithis xylina

2 Feltia jaculifera

6 Lacinipolia pensilis

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Lophocampa argentata

2 Neoalcis californiaria

 

 

   Well then, writes Jeremy Tatum, I’d better take a picture myself.  The one below is of an egg mass of Malacosoma californicum at Munn  Road today.

 

 

Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jeremy Tatum