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

2019 September 1

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes that yesterday, August 31, there were a dozen or so Ringlets Coenonympha tullia at Layritz Park.

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

2 Ennomos magnaria

2 Eulithis xylina

10 Lacinipolia pensilis

4 Neoalcis californiaria

2 Noctua pronuba

1 Tolype distincta

 

Jochen writes that in July he had 584 individuals of 73 species

                    and in August  he had 350 individuals of 50 species

 

 

 

  Five optimists attended the Monthly Butterfly Walk for September, optimistically hoping to see some butterflies in Victoria in this month.  Their optimism – and energy – were rewarded with four species, which is not bad for the time of year.  Four Woodland Skippers and five Cabbage Whites  in Finnerty Gardens, UVic.  45 Cabbage Whites, 2 Woodland Skippers, 1 Purplish Copper, and one very fresh Painted Lady at McIntyre Reservoir (where we were glad to see a few small new Teasels in flower), and two not-so-fresh Painted Ladies near the Jeffery Pine on Mount Tolmie.