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 June 3 evening

2023 June 3 evening

    Here are a bee photographed by Aziza Copper and identified by Steven Roias, and a damselfly and a dragonfly photographed by Marie O’Shaughnessy at Swan Lake and identified by Dr Rob Cannings.

Male Bombus melanopygus (Hym.: Apidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

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

 

Young female Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

 

 

 

Jeff Gaskin reports that, today on Mount Tolmie, he saw all three swallowtail species and Lorquin’s Admiral, and at the Beaver Lake Ponds, several Western Pondhawks and an Eight-spotted Skimmer.