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.

May 21 evening

2019 May 21 evening

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  This afternoon ,  May 21, there was a Lorquin’s Admiral in Gorge Park.   It seems rather early to me.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  Seems early  to me, too, but a search of the Invert Alert records in the last few years shows that in fact it is spot on!

2015  May 21

2016  May 20

2017  June 11

2018  May 20

 

  Jeremy continues:   Two Painted Ladies  at the McIntyre Reservoir, Central Saanich, this afternoon, and three on Mount Tolmie at 6:00 pm – one each on the summit, on the reservoir, and near the Jeffery Pine.