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 September 9

2022 September 9

    Kirsten Mills found a Lorquin’s Admiral at King’s Pond  yesterday, September 8.

   Aziza Cooper shows photographs of a White-faced Meadowhawk at Fisher Trail, Langford, September 6 (the first two photographs) and another of the same species on Observatory Hill, September 8 (third photograph). 

White-faced Meadowhawk Sympetrum obtrusum (Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza Cooper

 

White-faced Meadowhawk Sympetrum obtrusum (Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza Cooper

 

White-faced Meadowhawk Sympetrum obtrusum (Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza Cooper

   Val George writes:  Yesterday at Witty’s Lagoon I witnessed a caterpillar behaviour I hadn’t seen before and wondered whether it’s normal. An Isabella Tiger Moth caterpillar (Banded Woolly Bear Pyrrharctia isabella) was swimming across a pool of water to get to the other side.  I’ve seen caterpillars that have fallen into water and struggling to get out, but this one was near the edge of the pool and was purposefully swimming with a pretty good imitation of a front crawl to get to the other side about five or six feet away – it did make it and crawled out on dry land.