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 4

2020

May 4th be with you

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  This insect was flying around in my car –  distracting me!  – while I was driving down the Pat Bay Highway yesterday.  It is an alderfly.  I don’t often see these.  They used to be in the Order Neuroptera, but now they and the fishflies and dobsonflies are in the Order Megaloptera.

 

 

Alderfly Sialis sp. (Meg.: Sialidae)  Jeremy Tatum

  

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning.  No pics:

 

2 Hydriomena manzanita

1 Perizoma curvilinea

2 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli