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 17

2018 June 17

 

   As promised, here are Val George’s photographs of some of the butterflies seen on yesterday’s VNHS field trip (see yesterday’s posting).

Male Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Val George

 

Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon  (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Val George

 

 

Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Val George

 

Hydaspe Fritillary Speyeria hydaspe  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Val George

 

   My remark yesterday that we hadn’t received many recent reports of Pale Tiger Swallowtail Produced one from Jochen Möhr:

 

Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon  (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Jochen