October 3

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.

2015 October 3

Monthly Butterfly Walk, October 4. Scroll down to October 1 posting for details.

Eric LaGasa has a suggested identification for Aziza Cooper’s caddisfly on the October 2 posting. Scroll down to that date to see.

Annie Pang sends photographs taken by Rhona McAdam of a quite small millipede from a garden and in a freshly dug potato in the Rockwell area.

Millipede (DIPLOPODA) Rhoda McAdam

Jody Wells sends a photograph of a pair of meadowhawks ovipositing in the Red Barn area. Also a Banded Woolly Bear (Isabella Moth).

Meadowhawks ovipositing Sympetrum sp. (Odo.: Libellulidae) Jody Wells

Banded Woolly Bear Pyrrharctia isabella (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae) Jody Wells.

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