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.

2022 July 22

2022 July 22

    Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of a slug and a moth from View Royal, July 20

Three-banded Garden Slug Lehmannia valentiana (Pul.: Limacidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

Sicya crocearia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Cheryl Hoyle

   Jochen Möhr photographed this moth in Metchosin this morning.  As yet we have not been able to identify it.  If we do so, of course we shall post the identification.

Unknown moth (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

   Jeff Gaskin reports that he saw a Satyr Comma at Royal Roads University today. Take the trail from Heatherbell Road at the gate.  Also, today , July 22, Kirsten Mills told him that she saw a male Purplish Copper by the McIntyre Road reservoir and two Pine Whites in the firs at the corner of the Pat Bay Highway and Sayward Road.