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.

2023 March 28

2023 March 28

 

Ron Flower writes:  Today March 28 back at the Goldstream River we found more Mourning Cloaks and four Satyr Commas. There were surely more for it seemed they were everywhere. Nice what a bit of sunlight and heat will do.

 

   Wendy Ansell writes:  It was a good day for butterflies today.  We (Wendy and Gerry) had our first with a Comma at lunchtime and then a California Tortoiseshell  around 2:00  pm.  These were both in our yard on Cordova Ridge.  Later we went to Mount Tolmie and found your (Jeremy Tatum’s!) California Tortoiseshell on the grass just outside the reservoir.   Also seen by Jeff Gaskin.