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 August 19

2022 August 19

    Cheryl Hoyle sends two photographs from View Royal, August 18.  Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying the moth as a recent introduction from Europe.

 

Mesapamea secalis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

Male Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of Pero sp. from Metchosin this morning.   This is a difficult genus, but at present it seems most closely to resemble P. mizon.

 

Pero mizon (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Rosemay Jorna sends photographs of a Pacific Spiketail  from Sooke Potholes Regional Park today.  It will be noticed that this one has blue eyes, whereas Ron Flower’s one, shown on August 15, had brown eyes.  We think that the blue-eyed one is a male, and the brown-eyed one is a female.

 

Pacific Spiketail Cordulegaster dorsalis (Odo.: Cordulegastridae)  Rosemary Jorna

Pacific Spiketail Cordulegaster dorsalis (Odo.: Cordulegastridae)

 Rosemary Jorna

Pacific Spiketail Cordulegaster dorsalis (Odo.: Cordulegastridae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

Jeremy Tatum reports that he saw a Western Tiger Swallowtail along Royal Oak Drive today.

Can other viewers pass this date, please?