2024 August 18

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 August 18

Val George writes: This Dichagyris variabilis moth was at the Nanaimo River Road yesterday, August 17. The only butterflies I saw were two Common Woodnymphs and about half a dozen Woodland Skippers.

Dichagyris variabilis (Lep.: Noctuidae) Val George

Marie O’Shaughnessy visited Outerbridge Park on the morning of August 18, where she saw

Butterflies

4 Cabbage Whites
1 Lorquin’s Admiral
11 Woodland Skippers

Dragonflies

3 Striped Meadowhawks
4 Paddle-tailed Darners
1 Black Saddlebags
3 pairs of damselflies (bluets?) in copula

She sent photographs of Striped Meadowhawks:

Striped Meadowhawk Sympetrum pallipes (Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy

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