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 22

2019 December 22

 

   Jochen Möhr sends several more pictures of Operophtera from Metchosin.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I believe they are distributed about evenly between O. brumata and O. occidentalis.   Here is one that I’m fairly sure is O. occidentalis.

 


Operophtera occidentalis I(Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum