2022 May 4

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 May 4

Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a Honey Bee on Camas at Cedar Hill Golf Course, May 3.

Honey Bee Apis mellifera (Hym.: Apidae) Aziza Cooper

Jochen Möhr sends pictures of Gluphisia severa from his Metchosin home, May 3.

Gluphisia severa (Lep.: Notodontidae) Jochen Möhr

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