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.

April 30

2019 April 30

 

    Jeremy Tatum found this beetle at the waterfront along Beach Drive on April 29.   Thanks to Charlene Wood for the identification.

 


Eleodes (Blapylis)sp. (Col.: Tenebrionidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 



Eleodes (Blapylis)sp. (Col.: Tenebrionidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   Val George writes: This morning, April 30, the Tuesday birding group saw an Anise Swallowtail at Cattle Point and a Propertius Duskywing  on Mount Tolmie.

Coordinates:  Anise Swallowtail:  48.438516/-123.292919

                         Propertius Duskywing:  48.458075/-123.325452

 

 

Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Val George

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  There were two California Tortoiseshells on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 4:30 this afternoon.  I also got a brief glimpse of what I thought was a Western Tiger Swallowtail, but I’m not sure.

 

   Charlene Wood sends a picture of a small bee, which Annie Pang and Linc Best agree with Charlene is a female Adrena sp.

 

Mining bee Adrena sp. (Hym.: Adrenidae)  Charlene Wood

 

 

  Annie Pang photographed a female California Darner at Gorge Community Park on April 28.  Thanks to Rob Cannings for the identification.

 

California Darner Rhionaeschna californica (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Annie Pang

 

California Darner Rhionaeschna californica (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Annie Pang

 

 

      There’s a long line of moths waiting for tomorrow morning’s posting!