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 evening

2023 May 22 evening

 

Marie O’Shaughnessy writes:    Aziza Cooper and I saw a lovely West Coast Lady May 20th at the top of Mount Tolmie:

 

 

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West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)

Marie O’Shaughnessy

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West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)

Marie O’Shaughnessy

Jeff Gaskin reports a Mourning Cloak this afternoon from Interurban Road near Wilkinson Road.

 

 

Rosemary Jorna writes:   A walk around the Charters Creek Trestle and to Todd Creek on the Galloping Goose this morning resulted in spotting five Pacific Sideband snails,  one moth and a cricket:

 

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Monadenia fidelis  (Pul.:  Bradybaenidae)    Rosemary Jorna

 

 

 

 

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Macaria signaria  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Rosemary Jorna

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Tropidischia xanthostoma  (Orth.: Rhaphidophoridae)

Rosemary Jorna