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 20

2020 July 20

 

   Roleen Sevillena sends a photograph of a moth from outside the door of the Swan Lake Nature Centre:

 


Nematocampa resistaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Roleen Sevillena

 

    Jody Wells sends photographs of a dragonfly and a bee, kindly identified by Annie Pang.

 

Male Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Jody Wells

 


Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae)  Jody Wells

 

   Gordon Hart sends a photograph of an adult male Malacosoma californicum – whose caterpillar is the familiar orange and black tent caterpillar.

 

Male Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Eulithis xylina

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Nadata gibbosa

3 Nemoria darwiniata

1 Panthea virginarius

1 Pyrausta perrubralis

4 Sicya crocearia 

1 Macaria signaria

1 Cyclophora pendulinaria

 

 

    Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today, July 20,  I walked around the Royal Roads University and neighbouring streets and found a total of 28 Pine Whites, 34 Cabbage Whites, 4 Lorquin’s Admirals, and a Western Tiger Swallowtail.