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.

March 26

2017 March 26

 

   Nathan Fisk sends a photograph of a bumblebee from Fort Rodd Hill, March 24.  Sean McCann writes:  Looks to me a lot like Bombus melanopygus, but I may be wrong.  [Jeremy Tatum writes:  Well, I since looked up this species of the Web, and Nathan’s photograph does indeed look a lot like Bombus melanopygus, so I’m sure Sean is not wrong!   Thank you, Sean!]

 Bombus melanopygus  (Hym.: Apidae)   Nathan Fisk