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 7

2023 July 7

   Marie O’Shaughnessy writes: Lots of dragonflies at Swan Lake, July 6 morning. A Blue-eyed Darner was hovering nicely . A Black Saddlebags was zooming around, but never at rest. Still many Blue Dashers, and 1 Cardinal Meadowhawk

The most abundant butterfly was the Lorquin’s Admiral (7).  Three Western Tiger Swallowtails, 2 Cabbage Whites.

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

Lorquin’s Admiral  Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

    Jochen photographed a Lorquin’s Admiral and a female Cabbage White in Metchosin.  How did Jochen know it was a female?  Two black spots on the forewing.  The male has only one.  Will someone photograph a male for us, please, so that we can see the difference?   We also need an adult male Malacosoma disstria.   And a pallida Essex Skipper.

 

Lorquin’s Admiral  Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Jochen Möhr

 

Female Cabbage White  Pieris rapae  (Lep.: Pieridae)  Jochen Möhr