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.

July 21

2016 July 21

 

   Val George writes:  This Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata was beside a road near my house in Oak Bay on July 21.

 

Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)

Val George

   Samantha sends a photograph of a group of nymphs of the Birch Bug – appropriately on a birch catkin. Thanks to Scott Gilmore for the identification. There is an interesting account of this species at

http://entomofaune.qc.ca/entomofaune/punaises/punaises_acanthosomatidae.html

 

 Birch Bug Elasmucha lateralis (Hem.: Acanthosomatidae)

Samantha

   Annie Pang sends a photograph of  the beetle Leptura obliterata, from Gorge Park, July 21.

 

 Leptura obliterata (Col.: Cerambycidae)  Annie Pang