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 28

2019 September 29

 

   Jochen Möhr sends photographs, taken yesterday in Metchosin, of three individuals of the large geometrid moth Ennomos magnaria.

 


Ennomos magnaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Ennomos magnaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Ennomos magnaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Jochen’s moths from Metchosin this morning, no photographs taken:

 

1 Dryotype opina

5 Ennomos magnaria

1 Noctua pronuba

8 Pleromelloida cinerea

1 Schizura ipomoeae

1 Sunira decipiens

2 Tetracis jubararia/pallulata

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  On September 26, Kirsten Mills tells me that she saw a California Tortoiseshell and two Painted Ladies on the concrete reservoir on Mount Tolmie.  She was there just before 5 p.m.

   Jeremy Tatum saw two Cabbage Whites on Anchorage Road, Esquimalt, today, September 28.