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.

April 22

2021 April 22

 

   On April 20, Gordon Hart wrote that he saw a Western Spring Azure near the Munn Road substation pond, and another one at his Highlands home.  Also, a Mourning Cloak at Swan Lake.  Jeremy Tatum reports several Sara Orangetips and two California Tortoiseshells at the top of Christmas Hill on April 21.

 

   Ron Flower writes:   Yesterday Wednesday April 21 we went up the west side of Little Mount Douglas off Blenkinsop Road, where we saw many Sara Orangetips and in the small meadow behind the old viewing stand part way on the right side of the main trail we saw Western Spring Azures and Propertius Duskywings –  four or five of each.

 

 

    Jeremy Tatum writes:  These Sheep Moth caterpillars are still growing.  Here they are today:

 

Eglantine Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina (Lep.: Saturniidae)   Jeremy Tatum