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 22

2016 July 22

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I found a third-instar Red Admiral caterpillar at Swan Lake today.  Unlike the Lorquin’s Admiral caterpillars which I reported on July 20, which overwinter as young caterpillars, the Red Admiral caterpillar will produce an adult butterfly later this summer.