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 December 14

2022 December 14

 

Cheryl Hoyle sends, from View Royal, a photograph, taken on December 12 at View Royal,  of a fly, which (writes Jeremy Tatum) I believe to be probably Calliphora vicina.  Note the orange patch beneath the eye, which suggests this species.  By measuring the size of the petals after the fly had left, Cheryl found that the length of the fly was a little over 10 mm.

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Probably Calliphora vicina (Dip.: Calliphoridae)  Cheryl Hoyle

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Probably Calliphora vicina (Dip.: Calliphoridae)  Cheryl Hoyle