July 1

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.

2019 July 01 morning

Mark Wynja writes: Today while exploring the Northwest Bay Logging Roads I found 2 Dun Skippers.They were about 1.5 km apart up towards Rhododendron Lake. 1 Western Sulphur and 2 Margined Whites were the other highlights.

Jeremy Tatum writes: Three of Mark’s photographs will also be a challenge to the botanists. The butterfly in the first photograph has some white spots on the forewing. I believe this indicates that it is a female.

Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Mark Wynja

…more this afternoon or evening.

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