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 27

2019 August 27

 

   Ron Flower writes:  Yesterday, August 26, we went to Beacon Hill Park where we saw one Painted Lady and a handful of Woodland Skippers, all around the sundial and surrounding flower  beds.  Later, on Mount Tolmie, we saw two Painted Ladies.  Earlier in the week on August 22 at home in Royal Oak we had a Western Tiger Swallowtail fly through our yard.

 

Annie Pang sends pictures of a male Pine White from Esquimalt Gorge Park at the beginning of August.

 

Male Pine White Neophasia menapia  (Lep.: Pieridae)  Annie Pang

Male Pine White Neophasia menapia  (Lep.: Pieridae)  Annie Pang