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.

November 1

2019 November 1

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

4 Epirrita autumnata,

3 Sunira decipiens

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria

 

In October, Jochen had 128 observations of 22 species.

 


Sunira decipiens (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Epirrita autumnata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 



Epirrita autumnata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 


Epirrita autumnata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr