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.

April 17

2016 April 17

 

   Gordon Hart sends a photograph of a lacewing, Nothochrysa californica.

 

Nothochrysa californica (Neu.: Chrysopidae)  Gordon Hart

 

Jeremy Tatum:  Here is a moth that emerged today from a pupa found on Stinging Nettle at Swan Lake.

 

Udea profundalis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 The potter wasp below was in my Saanich apartment today.

 

Potter wasp  Ancistrocerus sp. (Hym.: Vespidae)  Jeremy Tatum