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.

July 8

2016 July 8

 

   Liam Singh sends two photographs from Victoria of a damselfly, kindly identified for us by Rob Cannings as a young female Tule Bluet.

 

Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)

Liam Singh

 

Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae) 
Liam Singh

 

 

   Annie Pang sends a photograph of a bee, identified by Linc Best, and of a dragonfly, identified by Rob Cannings.

 

Melissodes microsticta (Hym.:  Apidae)  Annie Pang

 

Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)

Annie Pang