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 July 4 morning

2023 July 4 morning

   Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed this Satyr Comma and Essex Skipper along Beach Drive on July 3.

Male Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Male Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

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