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.

July 4 evening

2020 July 4 evening

 

   For a notice about tomorrow’s Butterfly Walk, see this morning’s posting.

 

   Rosemary Jorna sends a mixed bag from the first 3 kilometres of the Grass Lake Trail in the Sooke Hills:

 


Monadenia fidelis (Pul.: Bradybaenidae) Rosemary Jorna

 

Clodius Parnassian Parnassus clodius (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

   Mr E photographed a colourful wasp/bee a few days ago.  We haven’t had an expert opinion yet, but Mr E suggests a cuckoo wasp Holopyga sp.

 

Probably Cuckoo wasp Holopyga sp. (Hym.: Chrysididae)   Mr E 

   Richard Rycraft saw an Essex Skipper in his garden on Lavender today.  Lavender seems to be a favoured nectar source for the Essex and Woodland Skippers.  Jeremy Tatum also saw an Essex Skipper today at Island View Beach.