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 19

2017 June 19

 

   Kirsten Mills sends a photograph of a pair of chequered beetles in copula from Clawthorpe Park, near Hillside Mall on June 19.  Thanks to Charlene Wood and Scott Gilmore for the identification.

 

Enoclerus eximius (Col.: Cleridae)  Kirsten Mills

Orthosia hibisci (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Orthosia hibisci (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Val George writes:  This Satin Moth, Leucoma salicis, was at Blenkinsop Lake today, June 20.

 

The elaborate bipectinate antennae show that it is a male.

 

White Satin Moth Leucoma salicis  (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)  Val George