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 26 morning

2023 April 26 morning

 

We have a spot of colour in this morning’s posting.  Aziza Cooper writes that on April 25, there were two Mourning Cloaks and one Cabbage White at Panama Flats, and one California Tortoiseshell at Mount Tolmie on the concrete reservoir at about 5 pm.  And Gordon Hart saw three Green Commas at his Highlands property.

 

 

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Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Aziza Cooper

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Cabbage White Pieris rapae    (Lep.: Pieridae)  Aziza Cooper

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California Tortoiseshell  Nymphalis californica  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Aziza Cooper

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Green Comma Polygonia faunus  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Gordon Hart