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 21

2018 June 21

 

Welcome to Summer!  Summer Solstice 2018 21d 03h 07m  PDT

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a caterpillar of Behrensia conchiformis found on Snowberry at UVic yesterday.   This is an interesting moth, for its caterpillar and pupa are invisible.  The adult moth is also interesting – but we’ll have to wait until next year to see why.


Behrensia conchiformis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   Annie Pang sends a photograph of a dragonfly from Gorge Park, June 19.  Thanks to Rob Cannings for the identification.

Juvenile male Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor Annie Pang