2022 July 23

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 23

The egg of the Lorquin’s Admiral is typically laid at the very edge of a leaf of Ocean Spray (as here below) or willow or crab apple. This one was found at Swan Lake today.

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jeremy Tatum

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