2023 May 29 evening

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

Ron Flower photographed a Purplish Copper at Goldstream today. This is good news. Last year just one was reported during one of the Monthly Butterfly Walks, and no additional reports were received by Invertebrate Alert.

Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Ron Flower

Aziza Cooper sends pictures of a Painted Lady and a West Coast Lady from Mount Tolmie.

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Aziza Cooper

West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Aziza Cooper

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