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 July 6 evening

2022 July 6 evening

    Ken Vaughan and Marie O’Shaughnessy independently visited Mount Tolmie yesterday, and apparently saw more-or-less the same butterflies!

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.:  Nymphalidae)   Ken Vaughan

 

Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Ken Vaughan

 

Lorquin’s Admiral  Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Ken Vaughan

 

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Ken Vaughan

 

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy