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.

March 13

2018 March 13

 

   Gordon Hart sends photographs of a moth and a fly from the Highlands area, March 11.  We thank Dr Jeff Skevington for kindly identifying the fly for us.   Gordon also remarks that he saw a butterfly on March 12 – probably a Green Comma.

 


Epirrhoe plebeculata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

 

 


Sericomyia chalcopyga (Dip.: Syrphidae)   Gordon Hart