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.

July 4

2017 July 4

 

   Ken Vaughan  sends a nice collection from Beaver Lake Ponds, July 2.

 

Bee-like robber fly Laphria asturina/fernaldi (Dip.: Asilidae) Ken Vaughan

 

Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae) Ken Vaughan

 

Left:  Dot-tailed Whiteface Leucorrhinia intacta (Odo.: Libellulidae)

Right: Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata (Odo.: Libellulidae)

Ken Vaughan

 

   And another nice collection from the Highlands:

 Left:  Pasiphila rectangulata (Lep.: Geometridae)

Right:  Tentatively Protitame matilda (Lep.: Geometridae)

Ken Vaughan

 Pasiphila rectangulata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Ken Vaughan

 

Enypia packardata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Ken Vaughan