2022 July 12 morning

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 12 morning

Marie O’Shaughnessy writes: Thank you for your suggestion re Painted Lady butterfly [that they flutter around the Jeffery Pine at the top of Mount Tolmie]. I found three fluttering around that big Jeffery Pine at 6.15 pm on July 11. Just as you predicted – one even settled along the roadside. Three were busy chasing one another most of the time so they didn’t settle for long. The one that settled was pretty worn. The Western Tiger Swallowtail was the most abundant butterfly at that time, with a total of seven. I saw four Lorquin’s Admirals, two Red Admirals and one Cabbage White.

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy

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