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.

May 8 evening

2016 May 8 evening

 

   Mike Yip sends a photograph of a Four-spotted Skimmer from Rhodo Lake, May 7.

 Four-spotted Skimmer Libellula quadrimaculata (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Mike Yip

 

   Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a Spotted Tiger Moth from the Blenkinsop Valley, May 8.

 

Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Bill Savale and I walked a short way along the E&N railway near the old Malahat station.  We saw three Sara Orangetips and our first-of-year Mylitta Crescent.