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.

2021 July 29 morning

2021 July 29 morning

Ron Flower sends photographs of an Anise Swallowtail and a Black Saddlebags from McIntyre Reservoir, Central Saanich, July 26.

 

Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Ron Flower

Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Ron Flower

 

Grace Morris sends a photograph of a caterpillar of a Ceanothus Silk Moth from a pine tree in her garden in Duncan.

 

Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae)   Grace Morris

Jeremy Tatum writes:   I mentioned on July 18 that I had learned from the Sussex, England, butterfly site that there is a difference in the shapes of the antennae of the Woodland and Essex Skippers.  This can be seen in photographs on this site for July 28 (Woodland) and July 11 (Essex).  The tip of the antenna of the Woodland Skipper is hooked at the end.  That of the Essex Skipper is blunt.