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.

March 6

2016 March 6, 2016

   Nathan Fisk writes: Watched this little one sunning and feeding on the Fort Rodd currants. Seen with black tailed bumblebees and bumbleflys.

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  That reminds us that we do very much need someone who can identify bees and other Hymenoptera for us!  Please get in touch (jtatum AT uvic.ca) if you can help!

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Bee (Hymenoptera)  Nathan Fisk

  Rick Schortinghuis writes that he saw a Satyr Comma and a Sara Orange-tip on Mount Douglas yesterday, and Barbara McGrenere writes that she and Mike saw aMourning Cloak along the Lochside trail, north of Blenkinsop Lake, also yesterday, March 5.