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.

November 23

2017 November 23

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I counted 44 Winter Moths – all males – around the four outside doors of my Saanich apartment building this morning, and one White-speck Moth.

 

White-speck Moth Mythimna unipuncta

(Lep.: Noctuidae)

Jeremy Tatum

 

   Kirsten Mills writes: Jeff Gaskin and I had a wasp up Observatory Hill yesterday, and two Honey Bees and I think an Autumnal Moth. I only photographed the wasp. We also had a very nice look at a Northern Pygmy Owl.

 

European Paper Wasp Polistes dominula (Hym.: Vespidae) Kirsten Mills