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 24

2019 September 24

 

   Three of Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin yesterday:

 


Hypena californica (or decorata?) (Lep.; Erebidae – Hypeninae)

Jochen Möhr

 


Hypena californica (or decorata?) (Lep.; Erebidae – Hypeninae)

Jochen Möhr

 


Euxoa sp. (Lep.:  Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Xestia finatimis complex (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr