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 18, evening

2017 April 18, evening

 

   We continue with Rosemary’s adventures with strange creatures in the Sooke Hills.  Here is her photograph of a pair of large millipedes.

 

Millipedes Harpaphe haydeniana (Polydesmida:  Xystodesmidae)  Rosemary Jorna

   Annie Pang photographed a fierce-looking fly in Gorge Park, April 16.  The life history of this fly is unsuited for some viewers.  So is that of its prey, come to think of it.

 

Epalpus signifer (Dip.: Tachinidae)  Annie Pang

 

      Gordon and Anne-Marie Hart report 2 Moss’s Elfins and a Cabbage White in their Highlands garden today.