May 26 evening

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.

2021 May 26 evening

Jeremy Tatum writes: Here are two comma caterpillars. The Satyr Comma from nettles along Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake. The Green Comma from willow along Panhandler Trail off Munn Road.

Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jeremy Tatum

Green Comma Polygonia faunus (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jeremy Tatum

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