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.

October 27

2019 October 27

 

   Layla Munger sends photographs of a spider and a bug from Beacon Hill Park, October 26.

 


Araneus (probably saevus) (Ara.: Araneidae)  Layla Munger

 


Chlorochroa sp.  (Hem.: Pentatomidae)  Layla Munger

 

   Gordon Hart writes:  On Saturday October 26 we visited Gorge Park in Esquimalt where we did not see any butterflies, but we did see a Yellow faced Bee Bombus vosnesenskii, feeding on a very early-blooming species of tall Mahonia (Oregon Grape).  We saw an unidentified large darner, probably a Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata, fly by as well. Smaller bees, including lots of honey bees, continue at home in the Highlands in this sunny weather.

 


Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Jeff Gaskin reports that Kirsten Mills saw a Cabbage White  in the North Dairy/ Richmond Avenue area yesterday, October 26.

 

  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I saw a nymphalid butterfly at Panama Flats today, October 27, but – darn it! – I couldn’t identify it, so it cannot be a contender for last butterfly of the year.

 

  Big question – is November possible?!