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 October 9

2024 October 9

No Invertebrate Alert was issued on October 9.

Jeff Gaskin saw one Cabbage White in the Burnside/Gorge community today, and Jeremy Tatum saw two flying over McKenzie Avenue.

Butterflies and dragonflies are becoming scarce now.  Just how late in the year can one see one?  Dr Rob Cannings just sent me a copy of an article (in the journal Argia) written jointly by him and Ian Cruickshank describing a sighting by the latter of a Variegated Meadowhawk on December 27 last year (2023) at Rocky Point Bird Observatory.