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 31

2018 March 31

 

   Gordon Hart writes: A few weeks ago, Anne-Marie found a black pupa while gardening. We placed it in a terrarium with a swallowtail pupa, and just yesterday the moth emerged.  This morning showed its beautiful hind wings.  Photographs below.

 


Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Gordon Hart

 


Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I saw my first butterfly of the year today – a Cabbage White flew past my livingroom window.  This surely augurs well for the first Butterfly Walk of the year, starting at the top of Mount Tolmie at 1:00 pm on Easter Sunday.  See Gordon’s announcement on the March 29 posting on this site.  All welcome!