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.

June 10, evening

2017 June 10, evening

 

   Jochen Moehr sends photographs of a variety of insects from Metchosin.

 


Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae)  Jochen Moehr

 


Bombus melanopygus (Hym.: Apidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

Drone Fly Eristalis tenax (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

Spittlebug adult (Hem.: Cercopoidea)  Jochen Moehr

   Jeremy Tatum sends photographs of two noctuid caterpillars, with “probable” identifications.

 

Probably Eurois occulta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Probably Egira curialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum