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 14

2023 June 14

   Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a Painted Lady on a dirt trail below the benches east of the north parking lot at Mount Tolmie, on the morning of June 13.

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

 

Marie O’Shaughnessy writes:  Essex Skippers, many (10) seen along Beach Drive at the Hooker’s Onion patch by the entrance gate of Uplands Park, June 13, 2023, and another along West Saanich Road.

 

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Marie also saw, along West Saanich Road, an Eight-spotted Skimmer catch a beetle in flight and rest on a perch to munch upon it.

 

Eight-spotted Skimmer Libellula forensis  (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy