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 23 morning

2021 May 23 morning

 

   Jeremy Tatum shows an Acronicta impleta from Blinkhorn Lake.

 


Acronicta impleta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   Mike McGrenere sends a photograph of a Propertius Duskywing from Mount Douglas, May 19.

 

Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius (Lep.: Hesperiidae)   Mike McGrenere

 

   Aziza Cooper writes:  On May 22, I found two Silvery Blues at the roadside daisy/lupin patch in Colwood, on Sooke Road where it meets the Trans Canada Highway. One butterfly was pristine and one had some wing damage.

 

  Aziza adds:  On May 21 at Tod Creek Flats there was one Western Tiger Swallowtail, and there was another one on May 22 at Christmas Hill. A Propertius Duskywing was also at Christmas Hill.

 

Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Aziza Cooper

 

Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Aziza Cooper

 

 

Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Aziza Cooper

 

 

   A miscellany from Rosemary Jorna.  Aphids from lupin at Sooke Potholes;  jumping spider from Kemp Lake;  sawfly larvae from gooseberry at  Whiffin Spit:

 


Macrosiphum albifrons (Hem.: Aphididae)   Rosemary Jorna

 

 


Phidippus johnsohni (Ara.: Salticidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Gooseberry sawfly Nematus ribesii (Hym.: Tenthredinidae)  Rosemary Jorna