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.

March 12

2020 March 12 morning

 

    Butterflies!!

 

   Les Peterson sends a photograph of a Satyr Comma  from Swan Lake Nature House, and Kirsten Mills sends a photograph of a California Tortoiseshell from Mount Tolmie, both March 11.

 

Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Les Peterson

 

California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica (Lep.: Nymphalidae

Kirsten Mills