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.

December 5

2019 December 5

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Well, I suppose I asked for it!   Just when I was beginning to think that I

knew the difference between  Operophtera brumata and O. occidentalis, Jochen Möhr sends a bunch of

 Operophtera  photographs from Metchosin, most of which are shaking my confidence!   In fact,  I

 believe (but I could well be wrong) that all are probably O.  brumata,  though I’m going to label the first

one below as “sp.”,  since it has a small claim to be possibly occcidentalis!

 

  I’d be interested in photographs of females.

 

  Jochen also sends a picture of a Drepanulatrix ­species, presumably either monicaria or secundaria – but let’s just leave that as “sp.” for the time being!

 


Operophtera sp.  (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

 


Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Drepanulatrix sp. (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr