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 11

2016 July 11

 

   Thomas Barbin sends some remarkable close-ups of insects in his Highlands yard, July 10. 

 

Bumblebee face  (Hym.: Apidae)   Thomas Barbin

Bumblebee hairs   (Hym.: Apidae)       Thomas Barbin

 

Bumblebee mouth   (Hym.: Apidae)             Thomas Barbin

 

Damselfly   (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)    Thomas Barbin

 

 

Sweat bee  Lasioglossum sp.   (Hym.: Halictidae)           Thomas Barbin

 

Sweat bee  Lasioglossum sp.   (Hym.: Halictidae)           Thomas Barbin

 

Sweat bee  Lasioglossum sp.   (Hym.: Halictidae)           Thomas Barbin

 

 

Sweat bee  Lasioglossum sp.   (Hym.: Halictidae)           Thomas Barbin

 

 

   Here are two more shots of Liam Singh’s Black Saddlebags (see yesterday’s posting).

 

Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Liam Singh

 

Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Liam Singh

 

 

   Annie Pang sends photographs of a variety of small flies from Gorge Park.

 

Fly   (Dip.:  possibly Lauxaniidae)   Annie Pang

 

Fly  Syritta pipiens (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Annie Pang

 

Fly (Dip.: possibly Tachinidae)  Annie Pang