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.

April 19

2017 April 19

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  At last, some moths at my Saanich Apartment rear door, if not particularly spectacular ones.  The first is a pug, and I usually by default call them Eupithecia annulata – which I think is actually correct in this case. The second is Emmelina monodactyla.

 

Eupithecia annulata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Emmelina monodactyla (Lep.:  Pterophoridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

 

   Annie Pang sends a photograph of a female mining bee from Gorge Park, April 16.

 Andrena sp. (Hym.: Andrenidae)  Annie Pang

 

 

   Nathan Fisk writes:  Caught a few flutterings yesterday (18th April) at Fort Rodd Hill.

 2 Cabbage Whites, 1 Moss’s Elfin feeding on Red Flowering Currant and 1 Western Spring Azure.