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 August 18 evening

2022 August 18  evening

     A plea from Jeremy Tatum:  Please, if you spot a mistake of any sort in any of the Invert Alert postings, please do not be shy about letting me know.  I just discovered a mistake (now corrected) in my spelling of the scientific name of the Pine White – I’m sure someone must have noticed!

    We are approaching the end of the butterfly season, though not quite there yet.  Swallowtails are beginning to become scarce, so it is worthwhile reporting any of these so that we can document the last dates.   There will still be Lorquin’s Admirals, Pine Whites, Cabbage Whites, Woodland Skippers around, and we may see a few late-season butterflies such as Red Admirals and Orange Sulphurs.  So keep reporting all butterfly sightings.

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  I saw a rather late Western Tiger Swallowtail this morning, August 18, just behind Tillicum Mall.  Lorquin’s Admirals are also still around as one was there and another in a backyard in the Burnside/Gorge neighbourhood.