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 28

2018 June 28

 

    Ann Nightingale sends a photograph of larvae of the Mountain Ash Sawfly, which are DEfoliating her Mountain Ash.  This is a European species, long established as an invader in eastern North America, and a recent invader in the west.

 

Mountain Ash Sawfly Pristiphora geniculata (Hym.: Tenthredinidae)  Ann NIghtingale

 

   Marie O’Shaughnessy sends photographs of three butterflies from Mount Tolmie, June 26.

 

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Lorquin’s Admiral  Limenitis lorquini  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

   Annie Pang sends a photograph of a Cabbage White  from Gorge Park.

 

Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae) Annie Pang

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Last night, June 27, I visited Cairn Hill in Highrock Park, Esquimalt, at 6:15 pm to see if there were any hilltopping nymphalids there.  There was just one – a Painted Lady.  However, it was rather windy at the time, and I think that that hill would be a good place to check more often for hilltoppers in less windy evenings.