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.

November 4

2016 November 4

 

 

   Devon Parker writes that there was a single Cabbage White yesterday at Martindale Road near the flowering mustard, and Jeff Gaskin writes that Marie O’Shaughnessy saw one along Metchosin Road yesterday. Today Jeremy Tatum found a full-grown Cabbage White caterpillar on a mustard, Charlock Sinapis arvensis, also in the Martindale area.

 

Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)  Jeremy Tatum