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 30

2017 May 30

 

   Marie O’Shaughnessy sends a photograph of a pristine fresh Painted Lady from Uplands Park, May 29.

 

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

 

   Bryan Gates sends a photograph of Callizzia amorata from Saratoga Beach, near Oyster River.  The caterpillar feeds on species of honeysuckle Lonicera sp.

 

Callizzia amorata (Lep.: Uraniidae – Epipleminae) Bryan Gates