October 25

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.

2015 October 25

Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a muscid fly from Francis King Park, October 22. Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a syrphid fly from her Oak Bay backyard and a meadowhawk from Observatory Hill.

Muscid fly. Possibly Helina sp. (Dip.: Muscidae) Rosemary Jorna

Syrphid fly. Possibly Eristalis sp. (Dip.: Syrphidae) Aziza Cooper

Meadowhawk Sympetrum sp. (Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza Cooper

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