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.

2022 April 26

2022 April 26

    John McClarnon sends photographs of two bumble bees trying to warm up  in the morning on the house wall , April 25 at Hazlitt Creek , Highlands (elevation 220 m) .  Thanks to Gordon Hart for identifying B.vancouverensis.

 

Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae)  John McClarnon

Bombus vancouverensis (Hym.: Apidae)  John McClarnon

 

Rosemary Jorna sends photographs of a Western Spring Azure and a Banana Slug from Cube Hill in the Sooke Hills, April 25.

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Banana Slug  Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae) Rosemary Jorna

 

Gordon Hart writes from the Highlands: We had a Mourning Cloak again April 25, but nothing different yet.   Cheryl Mackie saw two Propertius Duskywings, nine Sara Orangetips and seven Cabbage Whites on her count from Nicholson Street up and around Christmas Hill April 24.

Barbara McGrenere writes:  This morning (April 25), Mike and I saw a tattered Mourning Cloak on the Blenkinsop Bridge.  We also saw one Cabbage White in our backyard today.