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 31 evening

    Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin:  Today finally, I was able to get a picture of a Western Spring Azure, obviously an oldish one, perhaps as tired as I.   I have seen them around repeatedly since mid April, but always too fleeting.

Western Spring Azure  Celastrina echo  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Jeremy Tatum writes:  I saw a Milbert’s Tortoiseshell at UVic today.  And at 5:00 pm, the sole butterfly on the Mount Tolmie reservoir was a Red Admiral.