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 22

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   Val George reports the following butterflies from Mount Douglas on May 16:  22 Cabbage Whites; 2 Western Spring Azures; one each of Sara Orangetip, Propertius Duskywing, Pale Tiger Swallowtail, Western Tiger Swallowtail and Painted Lady.   Val also reports two Painted Ladies on the summit of Mount Douglas, May 21.  Photograph of one of them below.

 

Painted Lady  Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Val George

 

     Mike McGrenere reports a Mourning Cloak from Livesay Road, Central Saanich, May 18.  And on May 22, Mike McGrenere and Jeremy Tatum saw a Mourning Cloak and a Satyr Comma along Lochside Trail north of Blenkinsop Lake.

 

     Jeremy Tatum shows a Raspberry Weevil and a California Snout Moth.  The caterpillar of the moth, which fed on Stinging Nettle, was shown on May 9.

 

 


Otiorhynchus singularis (Col.: Curculionidae)   Jeremy Tatum

 

 


Hypena californica (Lep.: Erebidae – Hypeninae)   Jeremy Tatum