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.

August 22 evening

2018 August 22 evening

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today,  August 22, I found Ringlets at the following places  :   23  near Viaduct Flats and 55 at or near Layritz Park  for a total of 78.

 

   And Jeremy Tatum writes:  This afternoon I counted 33 Woodland Skippers on the UVic campus – most of them in Finnerty Gardens.