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 4

2019 September 04

 

   Jochen Mohr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Eupithecia sp.

10 Lacinipolia pensilis

2 Noctua pronuba 

1 Tetracis pallulata 

1 Euxoa difformis

 


Euxoa difformis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

   Rosemary Jorna writes:  This dragonfly , Libellula quadrimaculata,  a Four-spotted Skimmer , was one of  many dragonflies of this and at least two other species as well as several damselfly species flying at Pine Lake  and the places around Pine and Noyse Lake on the Kludahk Trail  yesterday.

 

Four-spotted Skimmer Libellula quadrimaculata (Odo.: Libellulidae) Rosemary Jorna

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  There were six Painted Ladies (four very fresh) this afternoon on the small Teasels now growing next to McIntyre Reservoir, Central Saanish.