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 20

  

2018 March 20

Spring Equinox

 

   Welcome to Spring!

 

    Jeremy Tatum writes: Gordon Hart sends a photograph of a bee admiring a daffodil.  Sean McCann, Claudia Copley and I have had a look at it, but none if us feels sufficiently confident to give a definite name to it, though Claudia’s suggestion of maybe Anthophora sp. looks at least plausible to me. 

 

Unidentified bee, possibly Anthophora sp. (Hym.: Apidae) Gordon Hart.