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.

September 3 afternoon

2019 September 3 afternoon

 

Ren Ferguson  sends a photograph of a bumblebee from the Cowichan Estuary on August 16, 2019, identified by Lincoln Best as a male Fog-belt Bumblebee Bombus caliginosus.   The bee is nectaring on Vancouver Island Beggarticks, Bidens amplissima.

 

Fog-belt Bumblebee Bombus caliginosus (Hym.: Apidae)  Ren Ferguson

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

2 Ennomos magnaria

2 Feltia jaculifera

6 Lacinipolia pensilis

4 Neoalcis californiaria

1 Oligia divesta

2 Tetracis pallulata

Zenophleps lignicolorata

 

 


Zenophleps lignicolorata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Tetracis pallulata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr


Fishea illocata (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr


Ennomos magnaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Enypia venata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

   Val George photographed the grasshopper below during the September 1 Butterfly Walk:


Melanoplus (probably bivitattus) (Orth.: Acrididae)  Val George