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 14

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   Mike McGrenere writes:  Barb and I were on Observatory Hill on Saturday afternoon (May 13) and we saw 5 Sara Orangetips, 1 Propertius Duskywing, 3 Western Spring Azures and 1 Pale Tiger Swallowtail (photo).  Jeremy Tatum comments:  This is the first swallowtail of any species that has been reported to Invert Alert in this very late spring.

 Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Mike McGrenere