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 24

2015 July 24

 

   Gordon Hart writes:  This week in the yard (Highlands District) there have been lots of Woodland Skippers, a few Lorquin’s Admirals , a couple of Cabbage Whites, and a Grey Hairstreak. I have seen no Pine Whites this week.

 

   Gordon also sends a picture of a bug nymph that he found on his blueberry bushes.  While bug nymphs can be difficult to identify, Scott Gilmore suggests that it may well be a young specimen of Cosmopepla intergressa or a closely related species.  Scott has photographed an adult bug of this species, to be seen at

http://bugguide.net/node/view/1071352/bgimage   

Probably Cosmopepla intergressa (Hem.: Pentatomidae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  The Anise Swallowtail caterpillars from Jochen’s farm now seem to be almost full grown.  I was having difficulty finding a local source of Oenanthe, but fortunately they are very happy to feed on Fennel, of which there is a lot on Mount Tolmie.

 

Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Jeremy Tatum