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 23

2023 May 23

 

   Marie O’Shaughnessy sends photographs of a Cabbage White and a Tule Bluet from McIntyre reservoir, and a California Darner from Mount Tolmie.  Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for identification of the damselfly and dragonfly.   Of the dragonfly, Dr Cannings writes:  It looks like a female with the cerci broken off.

 

 

 

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Cabbage White  Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)   Marie O’Shaughnessy

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Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)
   Marie O’Shaughnessy

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California Darner  Rhionaeschna californica  (Odo.: Aeshnidae)

Marie O’Shaughnessy

   Val George sends a photograph of a moth from the wall of his Oak Bay house this morning, May 23.

 

 

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Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata  (Lep.: Erebidae –Arctiinae)

Val George

  Jeremy Tatum shows a caterpillar found near Blenkinsop Lake:

 

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Orthosia hibisci  (Lep.: Noctuidae)   Jeremy Tatum