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 18 afternoon

2019 September 18 afternoon

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Agrochola purpurea

2 Drepanulatrix sp. 

1 Eudonia sp. 

1 Euxoa sp.  

1 Lambdina fiscellaria

1 Noctua pronuba

1 Udea profundalis

 


Xestia finatimis complex (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Dryotype opina (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr


Lambdina fiscellaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

   Here are some slugs from Nanaimo by Franci Holtsander:

 


Arion sp. (probably subfuscus) (Pul.: Arionidae) Franci Holtsander

Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae) Franci Holtsander


Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae) Franci Holtsander