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.

2023 May 20

2023 May 20

 

 

Aziza Cooper writes:  May 19 at about 6 pm, Marie O’Shaughnessy and I
observed nine butterfly species at Mount Tolmie summit:

 

Red Admiral – 2

Painted Lady – 4

Western Tiger Swallowtail – 2

Pale Tiger Swallowtail – 1

California Tortoiseshell – 1

Western Spring Azure – 1

Cabbage White – 1

Western Brown Elfin – 2 

Mourning Cloak – 2

Also on May 19, at Uplands Park, there were mining bees and a moth:  Autographa californica.

 

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Red Admiral  Vanessa atalanta  (Lep.:  Nymphalidae) Aziza Cooper

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Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae)

Aziza Cooper

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California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica   (Lep,: Nymphalidae)

   Aziza Cooper

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Aziza Cooper

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Autographa californica  (Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae)  Aziza Cooper

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Mining bee (Hym.: Andrenidae)   Aziza Cooper