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.

August 7 morning 2

2017 August 7 morning 2

 

   Samantha Hatfield sends a photograph of a Woodland Skipper from Gyro Beach.

 

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)

Samantha Hatfield

   Ken Vaughan had a good day at the Beaver Lake Retriever Ponds on August 8:

 

Striped Meadowhawk Sympetrum pallipes (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Ken Vaughan

Probably Spotted Spreadwing Lestes congener (Odo.: Lestidae) Ken Vaughan

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Ken Vaughan

Snipe fly Rhagio sp. (Dip.: Rhagionidae) Ken Vaughan

Ichneumon wasp Pimpla (probably rufipes or near) (Hym.: Ichneumonidae)

Ken Vaughan

Eight-spotted Skimmer Libellula forensis (Odo.: Libellulidae) Ken Vaughan

Drumming Katydid Meconema thalassinum (Orth.: Tettigoniidae) Ken Vaughan