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 April 14 morning

2024 April 14 morning

   Marie O’Shaughnessy writes:  On April 13 I went up to Mount Douglas at 3:00 pm and saw three Sara Orangetips, but they weren’t putting down at all.  Very active and long gaps between sightings.

I had better luck at 5:30 pm at Mount Tolmie. When I arrived, there was one very worn California Tortoiseshell on the pathway outside the reservoir railings and a Western Spring Azure resting or nectaring on the Oregon Grape flowers.

California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Jeremy Tatum found this woodling moth on the wall of his apartment building in Saanich this morning, April 14:

Egira curialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum