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 July 29 evening

2024 July 29 evening

Aziza Cooper writes:   On Thursday, July 25, at McIntyre Reservoir I found these dragonflies and four Cabbage Whites.

Male Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata  (Odo.:  Libellulidae)  Aziza Cooper

Female Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata  (Odo.:  Libellulidae)  Aziza Cooper

Kirsten Mills saw a Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa at Beckwith Park yesterday, July 28.

Ian Cooper writes:  Here’s a selection of pictures taken by the 9 km marker on the #Galloping Goose Trail and *Colquitz River Park on July 25 & 27 2024.

* Ambigolimax valentianus (Pul.: Limacidae)   Ian Cooper

# Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae)   Ian Cooper

Ground beetle – Pterostichus sp. (Col.: Carabidae)   Ian Cooper

# Weevil.  Sciopithes obscurus(Col.: Curculionidae)
Ian Cooper
We thank Steven Roias and Scott Gilmore for the identification of this weevil, which was initially mislabelled on the site.

 

 

# Running crab spider Philodromus sp. (Ara.: Philodromidae)   Ian Cooper

* Mosquito – Culiseta incidens (Dip.: Culicidae)   Ian Cooper

 

Jeremy Tatum shows photographs of a caterpillar of a Red Admiral butterfly from nettles at Swan Lake.

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Jeremy Tatum