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 16 morning

2016 July 17, morning

 

   Annie Pang sends some pictures from Gorge Park.  Thanks to Linc Best for Hymenoptera identifications.

 

Sceliphron caementarium (Hym.:  Sphecidae)  Annie Pang


 Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Annie Pang

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Annie Pang

 Lasioglossum sp. (Hym.:  Halictidae)   Annie Pang

 

 

 Lasioglossum sp. (Hym.:  Halictidae)   Annie Pang

 

 

   Mike Yip writes:  Late spring up Mount Washington. We walked up the ski run on July 15 and saw 8 Western Meadow Fritillaries, 4 parnassian sp., 2  Hoary (“Zephyr”) Commas, and a fly-by possible Silvery Blue. At the top there were several Great Arctics. There are still patches of snow at the top.

 

Western Meadow Fritillary Boloria epithore (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Mike Yip

 Hoary (“Zephyr”) Comma Polygonia gracilis zephyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Mike Yip

 

Great Arctic Oeneis nevadensis (Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)  Mike Yip

 

 

   Bill Savale and Jeremy Tatum walked along the railway line at Cowichan Station on July 16.  Cloudy, so not many butterflies, but we saw 1 Western Tiger Swallowtail, 1 Lorquin’s Admiral and 3 Margined Whites, as well as a Pacific Spiketail dragonfly.