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.

July 3 morning

July 3 morning

 

   A reminder – who photographed the fly shown on July 2?

 

   Annie Pang sends a photograph obtained by local gardener Janet Scott of a caterpillar of a Cinnabar Moth.

Cinnabar Moth Tyria jacobaeae (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Janet Scott

 

   Bryan Gates sends photographs of a Common Emerald moth and a Tule Bluet damselfly, the latter being the only native North American species in the morning’s offerings.

 

Common Emerald Hemithea aestivaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Bryan Gates

 

Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Bryan Gates

 

   Marie O’Shaughnessy sends a photograph of an Essex Skipper:

 

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineaola (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

     Jeremy Tatum writes:  Wanted!  Close-up photographs of the Essex Skipper clearly showing the underside of the tips of the antennae.