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.

2022 March 29

2022 March 29

    The first Cabbage White to be reported to Invertebrate Alert this year comes from Jeff Gaskin, who saw one in the Martindale Valley, March 27.   This is the first report this year of a butterfly that overwinters in the pupal state, rather than as an adult butterfly.