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 30 morning

2022 September 30 morning

    Colias Alert!   Yesterday Marie O’Shaughnessy saw four sulphurs at McIntyre reservoir and obtained astonishing photographs of the upperside.  I shan’t be able to post these until later in the day.  I want to examine the photographs carefully, but a hasty look suggests to me that they are quite likely Clouded Sulphurs, Colias philodice,  rather than our usual Orange Sulphurs.