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.

October 2

2019 October 2

[Sorry to be posting this so early in the day – I’m not expecting to be back at the computer again today.  Jeremy]

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin, October 1 and 2:

October 1

1 Dryotype opina

1 Lithomoia germana

2 Pleromelloida cinerea 

October 2

2 Drepanulatrix sp.

2 Dryotype opina

1 Ennomos magnaria

1 Hypena californica

1 Lithomoia germana

2 Pleromelloida cinerea 

1 Tetracis jubararia/pallulata

 


Dryotype opina (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

   Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a moth reared from a caterpillar found on Gumweed at Island View Beach, where the moth was released this morning.

 


Cucullia montanae (Lep.: Noctuidae)  JeremyTatum