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 30 evening

2023 April 30 evening

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Late yesterday afternoon, April 29,  I saw another Mourning Cloak.  This time it was in the Cecilia Ravine, and it even landed on me for a couple of seconds.   Jeremy Tatum responds:  Interesting!  I have had a Mourning Cloak land on me several times.    Anyone else?

 

   Aziza Cooper writes:  Yesterday, April 29, there were two Sara Orangetips and two Western Spring Azures on the Loop Trail at Horth Hill in North Saanich.

 

   Jeremy Tatum shows a moth from near Blenkinsop Lake, today.

 

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Paraseptis adnixa  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   Ian Cooper shows two crab spiders from the Galloping Goose Trail, April 28.   Dr Robb Bennett writes:  They are  both in the genus Xysticus, and I think they are Xysticus cristatus with the lighter coloured one a female and the darker one probably a male.Introduced from a probable UK source; I think we first identified themin BC in the 1990s.

 

 

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Xysticus cristatus   (Ara.:  Thomisidae)   Ian Cooper

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Xysticus cristatus   (Ara.:  Thomisidae)   Ian Cooper