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.

August 5 morning

August 5 morning

 

    Rosemary Jorna writes:  This 1cm beetle, at Noyse Lake access trail Aug 4, 2018, was on the underside of a blueberry stem.  Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying it as a soldier beetle Podabrus cavicollis. 

 



Podabrus cavicollis (Col.:  Cantharidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

    Ron Flower writes:  Yesterday Saturday 4th.  while watering my Camellia, I came across this moth:

 


Pero mizon (Lep.: Geometridae)  Ron Flower

 

   Reminder:   Monthly Butterfly Walk this afternoon, 1:00 pm, top of Mount Tolmie.  See announcement in yesterday’s June 4 midday posting.  All welcome.