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.

November 10 morning

2020 November 10 morning

 

Astonishing Butterfly Sighting!!!

 

   Jeremy Gatten sends the photograph below of an American Lady he saw on November 8 at Silver Spray in East Sooke.   Notice that you cannot see its abdomen, and that it because the butterfly is ovipositing!!!    The plant is a young Pearly Everlasting, one of the main foodplants of the species.

This is an astonishing record!

 

American Lady Vanessa virginiensis (Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Jeremy Gatten