August 22 afternoon

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.

2020 August 22 afternoon

Rosemary Jorna photographed this fly near Kemp Lake, August 21. Identified for us by Dr Jeff Skevington.

Meliscaeva cinctella (Dip.: Syrphidae) Rosemary Jorna

Jochen Möhr reports that after a gap of two days, the Pine Whites are out in full force – he saw eight as soon as he stepped out on to his balcony in Metchosin, as well as four Woodland Skippers.

Ian Cooper sends photographs of a Woodland Skipper and a spittle bug:

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Ian Cooper

Spittle Bug Philaenus spumarius (Hem,: Cercopidae) Ian Cooper

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