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.

January 20

2020 January 20

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   The moth season starts all over again with an Egira hiemalis at my Saanich apartment this morning.  Can we soon expect other early moths such as Phigalia plumogeraria and Hydriomena nubilofasciata?   Although the moth below is not showing its legs, it is actually alive and well.

 


Egira hiemalis (Lep.: Noctuidae)   Jeremy Tatum