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 21

July 21

 

   Val George sends a picture of Idaea dimidiata from his Oak Bay garden, July 20.

 

 

Idaea dimidiata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George

 

 

   Jeremy  Tatum writes:  I saw my first two Woodland Skippers of the year today, at Durrance Lake.  Also there were large numbers of Eight-spotted Skimmers.  This evening at 6:00 pm there was a Red Admiral on the bushes just outside the entrance to the Mount Tolmie Reservoir.