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 evening

2017 April 27 evening

 

   Two more Thomas Barbin photographs:

 

Nothochrysa californica (Neu: Chrysopidae) Thomas Barbin

       Thomas tells us that Wayne Maddison says the jumping spider below is either Pelegrina aeneola or Metaphidippus mania, but it is hard to tell since it is a juvenile.

Jumping spider (Ara.: Salticidae)  Thomas Barbin

 

Ian Cruickshank sends a photograph of a hover fly and an ant from Green Point, Long Beach, Pacific Rim National Park, April 26. Fly identified by Jeff Skevington; ant by Rob Higgins.

 

 Sericomyia sp. (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cruickshank

Formica sp.  (fusca group) (Hym.: Formicidae)  Ian Cruickshank

 

 

Ian also sends a photograph of a Western Brown Elfin from Wickanninish Dunes, April 24.

 

 

Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Ian Cruickshank