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.

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2016 August 3

 

 

   Jody Wells sends a photograph of Neoalcis californiaria from West Saanich Road near Keating Cross Road, July 31.  Jody writes:  I think it’s a beauty but some butterfliers weren’t impressed by this moth.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  Well, Jody, you and I both appreciate this fine moth, even if no one else does.  A true wonder of Nature.

 

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jody Wells

 

   Julie Michaux sends a photograph of Hemithea aestivaria from Muir Creek, August 2.

 

Common Emerald Hemithea aestivaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Julie Michaux

 

  Annie Pang sends a photograph of an anthomyiid fly from Gorge Park, August 2.

 

Fly (Dip.: Anthomyiidae)  Annie Pang

 

   Jody Wells sends two pictures of a female Cardinal Meadowhawk from Martindale Flats.

 

Female Cardinal Meadowhawk  Sympetrum illotum (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Jody Wells

 Female Cardinal Meadowhawk  Sympetrum illotum (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Jody Wells