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.

2024 July 19 morning

2024 July 19 morning

Jeremy Tatum writes:  These two moths were at the back door of my apartment building in Saanich this morning.


Idaea dimidiata 
(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

Female Malacosoma disstria  (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jeremy Tatum