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.

2023 April 22

2023 April 22

 

   Val George reports the following butterflies from Mount Douglas and surrounding area on
April 17:      3 California Tortoiseshells, 2 Cabbage Whites, and a Satyr Comma.

 

   Here are some photographs by Ian Cooper from *Colquitz River Park and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal, April 21.   (Cepaea from GG Trail near Point Ellice Bridge.)

 

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*Hover Fly  (Dip.: Syrphidae)   Ian Cooper

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#“Leatherjacket” – crane fly larva, probably Tipula paludosa (Dip.: Tipulidae)

Ian Cooper

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#Haplotrema vancouverense (Pul.: Haplotrematidae)   Ian Cooper

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Cepaea nemoralis (Pul.: Helicidae)   Ian Cooper

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*Probably Arion subfuscus (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

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 Soldier beetle larva (Col.: Cantharidae)  Ian Cooper