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 15

2016 November 15

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   The Cabbage White  caterpillar shown on November 12 pupated on November 14.  The chrysalis is shown below.  It is quite a different colour from the one shown on November 9.

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