2023 September 22

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 September 22
Summer ends and Autumn starts at ten minutes before midnight tonight

Aziza Cooper sends pictures of two of three mantids that she saw at Pedder Bay, September 21, and a dragonfly at Aylard Farm, September 22.

European Praying Mantis Mantis religiosa (Mantodea – Mantidae)
Aziza Cooper

Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum (Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza Cooper

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