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 23

2019 October 23

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning.   No photos taken:

 

1 Agrochola purpurea

2 Epirrita autumnalis

2 Sunira decipiens

 

    Jeremy Tatum writes:  In yesterday’s (October 22)  posting I reported a Painted Lady, and I wondered if it might be the last butterfly of the season.   Not quite, for Jeff Gaskin reports that he saw a Cabbage White in the Gorge Park Community Garden, and Kirsten Mills saw two Cabbage Whites around Hillside Centre and one on Glanford Avenue between Baker Street and McKenzie Avenue also yesterday, October 22.

 

  Mr E sends photographs of Araneus diadematus.

 


Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae)  Mr E

 

 


Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae)  Mr E