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.

September 20

2015 September 20

 

   Rosemary Jorna sends photographs of a bee from Whiffin Spit today.  We badly need someone who can identify bees and other Hymenoptera for us.  In the meantime, Jeremy Tatum suggests that this bee might be a megachilid.

Possibly a leafcutter bee (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Possibly a leafcutter bee (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Rosemary Jorna