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.

May 9

2017 May 9

 

   Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a Large Yellow Underwing from his Saanich apartment last night.

 

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

 

   Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a beetle found under a rock in her Kemp Lake area garden, May 7.  Charlene Wood writes:  This is the Greater Night-stalking Tiger Beetle Omus dejeanii. Primitive, nocturnal, wingless, and distributed from southwestern BC to southwestern Oregon. A nice sight! Similar to the threatened Omus audouini, but separated by dejeanii having larger punctures on the elytra, pronotum constricted behind (rather than parallel), and pronotum with a depression on the midline.  

 

Greater Night-stalking Tiger Beetle Omus dejeanii (Col.: Carabidae – Cicindelinae)

Rosemary Jorna

 

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I wonder if the Mount Tolmie hill-topping season has at last arrived.  At 4:30 this afternoon I went there, and there were two Painted Ladies near the Jeffery Pine, and a Painted Lady and a Red Admiral on the reservoir.