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 September 12

2022 September 12

    Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a caterpillar of Acronicta dactylina  from Metchosin.

Acronicta dactylina (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Marie O’Shaugnessy sends photographs of a variety of dragonflies from the Cowichan Valley and from Swan Lake.

Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)

Marie O’Shaughnessy

Common Green Darner Anax junius (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Striped Meadowhawk Libellula pallipes (Odo.: Libellulidae)    Marie O’Shaughnessy

Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis (Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy

Autumn, or Yellow-legged Meadowhawk Sympetrum vicinum (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

   Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a late Lorquin’s Admiral from Sooke Potholes today.

Lorquin’s Admiral  Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Rosemary Jorna