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 27

2016 July 27

 

   Annie Pang sends a photo of another robber fly – this time a much larger one, kindly identified by Rob Cannings as Laphria ferox.

 

Robber fly Laphria ferox (Dip.: Asilidae)  Annie Pang

 

   Annie sends photographs of two bees.  Sincere thanks to Sean McCann for the identifications.

 Megachile (probably melanophaea) (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Annie Pang

 

Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Annie Pang