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.

November 20

2018 November 20

 

   Jochen Möhr writes:  A couple of dragonflies joined me on November 18 in my boat while I was fishing on Poirier Lake in Sooke.   Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for identifying them as the late-flying  Yellow-legged Meadowhawk.

 

Yellow-legged Meadowhawk Sympetrum vicinum (Odo.: Libellulidae) 

 Jochen Möhr