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.

June 8

2017 June 8

 

   Jochen Moehr sends a picture of a harvestman from Metchosin, kindly identified for us by Philip Bragg as Phalangium opilio.

 

Harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opi.: Phalangidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

 

   It seems that we have a spate of Sphinx perelegans just now.  Kurtis Herberger has a second individual (pictured below) at his Mill Hill home, Libby Avis has seen one in Port Alberni, and Annie Pang writes that she has been hearing from several people around the Island who have seen them.

 

Sphinx perelegans (Lep.: Sphingidae) Kurtis Herperger

 

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes that Kirsten Mills saw a Lorquin’s Admiral at Swan Lake by the parking lot on June 06.