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.

May 2

2015 May 2

 

   Reminder –  Butterfly Walk on Sunday May 3, led by Aziza Cooper.  Meet at 1:00 pm at the top of Mount Tolmie.  All welcome.

 

    Bill Katz sends a photo of a Barberry Geometer from Goldstream Park.

Barberry Geometer Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae) Bill Katz

 

    Jeremy Tatum reports a tiny, tiny reddish-brown geometrid from Munn Road this morning, May 2 – the Dark-ribboned Wave Leptostales rubromarginaria.  Sorry – I didn’t manage a photograph.  Also there were a Moss’s Elfin, and clouds of mud-puddling Western Spring Azures. 

 

  In the late afternoon there were a Mourning Cloak and a California Tortoiseshell on the Mount Tolmie reservoir, and a Painted Lady near the nearby Jeffery Pine.  All looked a little past their best-before date.