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.

August 26 afternoon

2020 August 26

 

   Rosemary Jorna sends a picture of a wasp (yellowjacket) feeding on a fallen apple in her Kemp Lake garden.  Thanks to Claudia Copley for the identification of the species.

 


Vespula vulgaris (Hym.: Vespidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

   A miscellany from Ian Cooper:

 

Spittle bug Philaenus spumarius (Hem.: Cercopidae)  Ian Cooper

 


Ammophila sp. (Hym.: Sphecidae)  Ian Cooper

 


Leucospis affinis (Hym.: Leucospidae)  Ian Cooper