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.

2022 February 7

2022 February 7

    Jochen Möhr photographed this pug at his Metchosin home yesterday.   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I sometimes post these difficult nondescript pugs, rightly or wrongly,  as something like “probably Eupithecia annulata” or “probably E. misturata”.  Jochen’s pug below may possibly be one of these (I can’t think of anything else), but I think prudence demands that we content ourselves this time with labelling it merely “Eupithecia sp.”

Eupithecia sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr