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.

June 10

2016 June 10

 

   Annie Pang writes:  I had quite a few of these Common Emeralds a few nights ago here in Victoria BC at my back porch.

 

Common Emerald Hemithea aestivaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Annie Pang

 

   Devon Parker writes:  I was up on the Malahat today (June 9) with my Dad. This was our sighting list for the day along the power lines. I also attach a photo of a Lorquin’s Admiral caterpillar that my Dad had found on a Salix sp. at the Spectacle Lake Parking lot on May 22 2016.

1 Western Tiger Swallowtail
4 Pale Tiger Swallowtail
10 Western Spring Azure
4 Lorquin’s Admiral
1 Dun Skipper
2 Boisduval’s Blue
1 Grey Hairstreak
1 Hemaris thetis

 

Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Devon Parker

(and a pentatomid bug)

 

 Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Devon Parker

 

 

 

Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Devon Parker

 

Boisduval’s Blue Icaricia icarioides (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Devon Parker

 

Hemaris thetis (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Devon Parker

 

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Devon Parker