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.

June 5

2018 June 5

 

   Nathan Fisk spotted a Lorquin’s Admiral chrysalis on an Ocean Spray bush, at Fort Rodd Hill Learning Meadow, June 4.

 

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Nathan Fisk

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes that last night (June 4) at 6:00 pm there was a Painted Lady on the Mount Tolmie reservoir, and today he saw a beautiful pristine Lorquin’s Admiral at Swan Lake.  Lorquin’s Admiral will presumably pretty soon be a daily sight everywhere.