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.

May 17 morning

2021 May 17 morning

 

   Aziza Cooper writes:

 

        Here is a small moth seen today, May 16, at Thomas Francis / Freeman King Park.

     Also here are two photos of Western Spring Azures, same date and place.

 


Mesoleuca gratulata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

     Jeremy Tatum writes:    Below are photographs of three flies obtained by Rosemary Jorna near Kemp Lake on May 5.   I haven’t managed to get identifications of them.  If anyone can help, please do let us know.   In the meantime, I am making wild guesses at them at Family level – please don’t take them for definitive identifications.

 

    My guess at the first one, below, is probably Tachinidae, though maybe Calliphoridae.

 

Fly 1 (Diptera)   Rosemary Jorna

 

    Fly 2 may possibly be Syrphidae:

 

Fly 2 (Diptera)   Rosemary Jorna

 

   And I think Fly 3 is probably Muscidae – maybe Helina  or Phaonia.

Fly 3 (Diptera)   Rosemary Jorna