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 May 22

2023 May 22

Aziza Cooper writes:  On May 21, on the lawn east of the main building at Government House, there were two Western TigerSwallowtails and one Pale Tiger Swallowtail.  Today at Goldstream railroad tracks, there was one Pale Tiger Swallowtail and one Western Spring Azure, and four Cinnabar Moths.

 

 

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Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus  (Lep.: Papilionidae)

Aziza Cooper

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Cinnabar Moth  Tyria jacobaeae (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)

  Aziza Cooper