July 13 morning

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 13 morning

Jochen Möhr sends a picture of a beetle from Metchosin. Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying it as Xylotrechus longitarsus or X. undulatus.

Xylotrechus longitarsus/undulatus (Col.: Cerambycidae) Jochen Möhr

Jeremy Tatum writes: At Mount Douglas last night (June 12) at 7:00 pm, four Painted Ladies and a Red Admiral.

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