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 27 morning

2017 April 27 morning

 

   Here are some recent photographs from Thomas Barbin, taken in the Highlands in the last ten days or so.

 Ichneumon wasp (Hym.: Ichneumonidae – Anomaloninae)  Thomas Barbin

Ichneumon wasp (Hym.: Ichneumonidae – Anomaloninae)  Thomas Barbin

 

 

Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Thomas Barbin

 Carpenter Ant Camponotus vicinus (Hym.: Formicidae) Thomas Barbin

 


Myopa sp. (Dip.: Conopidae)  Thomas Barbin

 

 Myopa sp. (Dip.: Conopidae)  Thomas Barbin

 

Cuckoo bee (Hym.: Apidae – Nomadinae) Thomas Barbin

 

Cuckoo bee (Hym.: Apidae – Nomadinae) Thomas Barbin

 

 

San Francisco Lacewing Nothochrysa californica (Neu.: Chrysopidae)

Thomas Barbin

 Sawfly (Hymenoptera – Symphyta)  Thomas Barbin