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 25 morning

2023 June 25 morning

  Marie O’Shaughnessy spent a productive hour with dragonflies and damselflies at Outerbridge Park, June 23:

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

Female Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum
(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy
Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for identifying this one for us.

 

Pacific Forktail Ischnura cervula  (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Four-spotted Skimmer Libellula quadrimaculata
(Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Cardinal Meadowhawk  Sympetrum illotum (Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy