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 23 morning

2019 September 23 morning

 

   At 00h 51m this morning, the Sun passed from north to south of the equator.  Welcome to Fall!

 

Jeff Gaskin writes: On September 21 , I saw a Painted Lady in Beacon Hill Park in the Verbena that is near Deer Lake.  Deer Lake is the pond across from the petting zoo.  Also, Lynda Dowling tells me she had a Red Admiral at her herb and lavender farm as well as 4 Cabbage Whites, September 21.  She lives at 3505 Happy Valley Road.

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin, September 22.  Thanks to Libby Avis for help with the identifications.

 

1 Drepanulatrix sp.

1 Leucania insueta

1 Lithophane petulca

1 Nadata gibbosa

2 Dryotype opina

1 Plemyria georgii

8 Pleromelloida cinerea

1 Sunira decipiens

2 Tetracis jubararia /pallulata

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria 

 

 


Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr


Lithophane petulca (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr


   Xestia finamitis complex (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr


Nadata gibbosa (Lep.: Notodontidae) Jochen Möhr


Plemyria georgii (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr


Dryotype opina (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr


Sunira decipiens (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr


Tetracis jubararia/pallulata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr


Tetracis jubararia/pallulata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr