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 17 evening

2016 July 17 evening

 

   Annie Pang sends another bee photograph from Gorge Park.

 

Halictus rubicundus (Hym.: Halictidae)   Annie Pang

 

  Bryan Gates writes:  This moth was in my daughter’s house in south Oak Bay.

 Small Magpie Moth Eurrhypara hortulata (Lep.: Crambidae)  Bryan Gates