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 15

2019 September 15

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Drepanulatrix sp.

1 Agrochola purpurea

1 Noctua pronuba

 


Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr


Sunira decipiens (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Not many butterflies and moths now, but there are still some invertebrates to see.  Anyone who says that snails don’t move fast should try to photograph one!

 


Cornu aspersum (Pul.: Helicidae)   Jeremy Tatum