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 9 morning

June 9 morning

 

   Gordon Hart writes:  On my birthday, Thursday July 5, Anne-Marie and I drove to Cowichan Station, our first visit there. We saw 8-10 whites but they would not land. Finally, two sat long enough to confirm Margined Whites. The usual other species were present as well: Essex Skippers, Lorquin’s Admirals and Western Tiger Swallowtails . I have attached a photo of a female Common Whitetail, Plathemis lydia, and a Margined White.   [That sounds like a pretty good birthday!   Jeremy]

Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Gordon Hart

Margined White Pieris marginalis (Lep.: Pieridae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of a beetle and a snail from East Saanich, July 8.

Golden Jewel Beetle Buprestis aurulenta (Col.: Buprestidae) Cheryl Hoyle


Cepaea nemoralis (Pul.: Helicidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

 

   More of Jochen Möhr’s moth photographs from Metchosin .   Thanks to Libby Avis for identification.


Acronicta dactylina (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr


Acronicta dactylina (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr


Properigea albimacula (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr


Mythimna or Leucania sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr


Pero mizon (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr