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.

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2017 May 1

 

   Ken Vaughan photographed a cuckoo bee Nomada sp. yesterday.  Thanks to Sean McCann for the identification.

 

Cuckoo bee Nomada sp. (Hym.: Apidae – Nomadinae)  Ken Vaughan

 

 

   Jeremy Tatum and Bill Savale spent a couple of hours yesterday along the hydro right of way next to Spectacle Lake -usually a prime butterfly location, but we didn’t see a single butterfly.  Jeremy photographed the spider below, identified by Robb Bennett as Araniella displicata.

Araniella displicata (Ara.: Araneidae)   Jeremy Tatum