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 9

2016 May 9

 

   Apparently you don’t have to go out into wilderness areas to find the Western Brown Elfin.  Annie Pang has found them as close to town as Gorge Park.  Here is one of them, which she photographed there yesterday.

 Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides (Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Annie Pang

 

 

   Jeremy Tatum visited Goldstream Park briefly today, and he saw a few Western Spring Azures and a Red Admiral.  He also checked the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 6:00 pm this evening.  There was one Red Admiral there.