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.

2023 July 1 evening

2023 July 1 evening

   Ian Cooper photographed this beetle by the E&N Trail in View Royal, June 29.  Thanks to Scott Gilmore for the identification.

Agrilus sp. (Col.: Buprestidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Marie O’Shaughnessy sends another splendid batch of Sheep Moth photographs:

Sheep Moths Hemileuca eglanterina (Lep.: Saturniidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina (Lep.: Saturniidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina (Lep.: Saturniidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

   Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of two tortricid moths from View Royal.  We are most grateful to Dr Jason Dombrowskii and to Libby Avis for their identification.  The second one is identified to the level of “Tribe” (which is a finer division than Subfamily).  The names of Tribes end in -ini.   Olethreutini is a Tribe within the Family Tortricidae.

 

Hedya ochroleucana  (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

Olethreutine moth (Lep.: Tortricidae – Olethreutini)  Cheryl Hoyle