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 3 morning

2018 September 3 morning

 

   Ron Flower sends a photograph of an ichneumonid from Swan Lake, August 26.  Ichneumonids are notoriously difficult to identify because there are so many of them, and many are poorly known or poorly documented.  But, writes Jeremy Tatum, if I label this one Pimpla rufipes, I’m probably not far out.

 

Perhaps Pimpla rufipes (Hym.: Ichneumonidae)  Ron Flower