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 5

2018 November 5

 

    Jeremy Tatum writes:  In the November 3 posting, I said I’d look up the date of the last 2017 butterfly.  It was a Cabbage White on 2017 November 1.  Thus Kirsten’s November 2 sighting of a Cabbage White this year beats last year’s by one day!   

  We may have seen the last butterfly of the year, but there are still a few invertebrates around, so Invert Alert will remain open, though doubtless at a reduced rate of activity, so please continue to send your observations or photographs in.