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.

September 1 morning

2018 September 1 morning

 

Hello Butterfly Watchers,

  This is a reminder that the monthly VNHS Butterfly Walk will be on Sunday September 2. We will meet at the summit of Mount Tolmie by the reservoir at 1 p.m. Gordon has a clash of commitments, so Jeremy Tatum will lead.   Jeremy is thinking of a trip to Layritz Park for Ringlets and whatever else might be around, but we can decide at the time.  We hope to see you on Sunday. 

  

 Jeremy writes:  It seems a long time since we have seen a Red Admiral (the last one reported to Invert Alert was on July 15), so I was pleased to find a young caterpillar of one on a Stinging Nettle in Colwood yesterday.

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jeremy Tatum