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.

April 10

2017 April 10

 

   Richard Rycraft reports a sighting of a Cabbage White in Oak Bay,  April 8.

 

   Ken Vaughan sends some photographs from Beaver Lake on April 9.  Thanks to Robb Bennett, Sean McCann and Bill Murphy respectively for the identifications of the spider, the bee and the fly.

 


Pardosa vancouveri (Ara.: Lycosidae)  Ken Vaughan

 Male Andrena sp. (Hym.:  Andrenidae)  Ken Vaughan

 

Marsh fly Sepeda americana (Dip.: Sciomyzidae)  Ken Vaughan