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 29 morning

 

2020 May 29 morning

 

   Jochen Möhr writes:  On May 27, Chris and I did a tour through Metchosin.  On the way in, I spotted one Anise Swallowtail and one Cabbage White along the road.   Then we went to some farms, on one, which has several acres of various Brassica, there were at least a dozen Cabbage Whites fluttering about, but nothing else.

 

Before that time, observing from my deck for about an hour, I had about 10 sightings of blues but did not get close enough to document them.  There were also two sightings of a Cabbage White and a sighting of an Anise Swallowtail and one of the other tiger swallowtails.

 

Yesterday morning, the results of observations from the deck were similar: 5 Blues, one Cabbage White, one each of Anise and tiger swallowtail.   Finally, we are now inundated with Adela septentrionella.

 


Adela septentrionella (Lep.: Adelidae)  Jochen Möhr

Adela septentrionella (Lep.: Adelidae)  Jochen Möhr

   And now a snakefly and a click beetle from Jochen.  Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying the snakefly to genus.

 

Snakefly Agulla sp. (Rha: Rhaphidiidae)  Jochen Möhr


Selatosomus suckleyi (Col.: Elateridae)  Jochen Möhr