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 17 morning

2020 July 17 morning

 

From Gordon Hart:

 

Hello Butterfly Watchers,

The July Butterfly Count period starts Saturday July 18 until Sunday July 26. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending from Victoria to Brentwood Bay and Island View Road in Central Saanich, and west to Happy Valley and Triangle Mountain, and Langford Lake and Goldstream areas.

You can submit a count any time over the count period, just use a separate form for each count and location. In the case of repeat or duplicate counts, I will use the higher numbers. To submit counts, please use the form from the VNHS website at: https://www.vicnhs.bc.ca/?p=33

If you have difficulty with the form, just send me an email with the information.

Thank-you for submitting your sightings and good luck with your count.

-Gordon

 

Gordon Hart,

Butterfly Count Coordinator,

Victoria Natural History Society

 

 

Annie Pang sends pictures of a long-horned beetle from a neighbour’s garden in the Gorge area, July 14.   Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying it as Xestoleptura crassipes.

 


Xestoleptura crassipes (Col.: Cerambycidae)   Annie Pang


Xestoleptura crassipes (Col.: Cerambycidae)   Annie Pang