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 28

2016 July 28

 

   Annie Pang sends photographs of two bees.  Thanks to Sean McCann and Linc Best for identifications.

 

 

Megachile sp. (Hym.: Megachilidae)   Annie Pang

 Halictus rubicundus (Hym.: Halictidae)   Annie Pang

   Jody Wells sends a series of splendid dragonfly photographs from Martindale Flats, near the McIntyre reservoir, July 20 – 24. Sincere thanks to Rob Cannings for the identifications.

 

Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum (Odo.: Libellulidae)

Jody Wells

Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Jody Wells

 Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae) Jody Wells

Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Jody Wells

Saffron-winged Meadowhawk Sympetrum costiferum  (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Jody Wells

Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Jody Wells

W estern Pondhawk Erythemis collocata (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Jody Wells

 Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata(Odo.: Libellulidae)  Jody Wells

   Jeremy Tatum reports a Red Admiral from Whiffin Spit today (July 28).  Also two Red Admirals at the top of Mount Tolmie at 6:00 p.m.   As on July 25, one of the Red Admirals was on the paint blotch on the reservoir, and the other  was on the bramble patch.