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.

May 11 evening

2021 May 11 evening

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  5:30 pm today on the Mount Tolmie reservoir (actually on the reservoir – not around the Jeffery Pine), a pristine fresh Painted Lady.  Also a not-quite-so-pristine-fresh Mourning Cloak and a California Tortoiseshell.  That’s one each of three nymphalid butterflies.

 

  Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a Zebra Jumping Spider from the Kemp Lake area today.

 

Zebra Jumping Spider Salticus scenicus (Ara.: Salticidae)  Rosemary Jorna