2023 May 29 morning

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 29 morning

Aziza Cooper writes that yesterday, May 28, on Mount Tolmie, there were: 4 Painted Ladies (two on the reservoir, and two on the road near the Jeffery Pine), 1 West Coast Lady and 1 Red Admiral (all in the genus Vanessa).

Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a Xanthorhoe defensaria from View Royal, May 28.

Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Cheryl Hoyle

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