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 17

2024 April 17

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  There was a California Tortoiseshell on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 5:00 pm today.   It was a different individual from the one photographed there recently by Marie and by Aziza. This was the only butterfly reported to Invert Alert today.  I visited Swan Lake today, and Lochside Drive at Blenkinsop Lake yesterday, without seeing any butterflies.  It is still appropriate for observers to report any butterfly sightings, even if just singletons of common species.