2023 June 9 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 June 9 morning

Aziza Cooper photographed a damselfly and a dragonfly at Pease Lake on June 8.

Boreal or Northern Bluet Enallagma boreale or annexum
(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)
Aziza Cooper

Chalk-fronted Corporal Ladona julia (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Aziza Cooper

Kirsten Mills writes: June 8, at the cemetery on West Saanich Road, Jeff Gaskin and I saw 3 Field Crescents and 3 Essex Skippers:

Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Kirsten Mills

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Kirsten Mills

Jeremy Tatum shows a photograph of an Enargia infumata, reared from a caterpillar found on Populus at UVic.

Enargia infumata (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum

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