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 8

2022 September 8

    Val George sends a photograph of a moth that was on the wall of his Oak Bay house this morning:

 

Sabulodes aegrotata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George

 

Marie O’Shaughnessy sends a photograph of a caterpillar on the fairway of the Victoria Golf Course yesterday:

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

Marie O’Shaughnessy

   Cheryl Hoyle sends some photographs from View Royal, September 7.

Honey Bee Apis mellifera (Hym.: Apidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

Emmelina monodactyla (Lep.: Pterophoridae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

Thanks to Libby Avis for identification of the moth below.

Copper Underwing  Amphipyra pyramidoides (Lep.: Noctuidae)

Cheryl Hoyle

 

Two spiders from Ian Cooper:

Philodromus dispar (Ara.: Philodromidae)  Ian Cooper

Eratigena (probably duellica) (Ara.: Agelenidae)  Ian Cooper

   Robert Cowan sends a photograph of a dragonfly from Rocky Point, September 5.

White-faced Meadowhawk Sympetrum obtrusum (Odo.: Libellulidae)

Robert Gowan