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.

2024 March 13

2024 March 13

    Butterfly Alert!  Jules Thomson saw a Mourning Cloak, on Jasmine at 1251 Pearce Crescent, today, March 13, at 12:34 pm.

This is only the second butterfly reported to Invertebrate Alert this year.  The first, also a Mourning Cloak, was on February 13 (February 14 Invert Alert).