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.

September 20 afternoon

2020 September 20 afternoon

 

   Kirsten Mills photographed a rather late Lorquin’s Admiral near Warbler Alley on Mount Tolmie today:

 

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Kirsten Mills

 

   Van George photographed one of the Anise Swallowtail caterpillars at Bow Park today.  You can see the yellow osmeterium just beginning to appear behind the caterpillar’s head.

 

Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon  (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Val George