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 September 7 morning

2022 September 7 morning

   Marie O’Shaughnessy writes:  A friend and I were delighted to find a few hovering dragonflies at McIntyre Reservoir yesterday afternoon.  We saw a Common Green Darner. The majority of the dragonflies seen were Paddle-tailed Darners,  and  three Black Saddlebags. Also saw only one  Eight-Spotted Skimmer.

Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Eight-spotted Skimmer Libellula forensis (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

   Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin:  Last night three Neoalcis californiaria and at least five Udea profundalis.  I took only one picture of one of the latter.   In addition a Synaxis jubararia and an Alucita montana.  

Alucita montana (Lep.: Alucitidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Udea profundalis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Tetracis jubararia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Two caterpillar pictures from Jeremy  Tatum. The first from Rithet’s Bog; the second from Swan Lake.

Yellow Woolly Bear Spilosoma virginica  (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jeremy Tatum

Eyed Hawk Moth Smerinthus ophthalmica (Lep.: Sphingidae) Jeremy Tatum