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 evening

July 3 evening

 

  A beetle and a moth from Jochen Möhr in Metchosin.  Thanks to Claudia Copley for identifying the beetle, and to Libby Avis for identifying the moth.

 



Polyphylla crinita (Col.: Scarabaeidae)   Jochen Möhr

 


Lacinipolia strigicollis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Jeremy Tatum and Bill Savale visited the railway line north of Cowichan Station today, and we can report that there are still lots of Margined Whites there, as well as Lorquin’s Admirals and Western Tiger Swallowtails.