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 June 2

2023 June 2

 June Butterfly Walk
Message from Gordon Hart

 Hello, Butterfly Watchers,
We will be having a Butterfly Walk on Sunday, June 4.
We will meet at the top of Mount Tolmie by the reservoir, at 1.00 p.m. You can park in the parking lot there, or in the large lot north of the summit. After a look around the summit, we will decide on a destination from there.
See you on Sunday,
Gordon

Gordon Hart,
Butterfly count coordinator
Victoria Natural History Society

 

Kirsten Mills writes:  Today, June 2, my son and I went up Mount Tolmie. We saw 2 Anise Swallowtail, 5 Western Tiger Swallowtail, 1 Pale Tiger Swallowtail, 4 Lorquin’s Admiral, 1 Red Admiral, 2 Painted Lady, and 1 West Coast Lady.  Also could you please identify this caterpillar?

 

Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon (Lep.: Papilionidae)
Kirsten Mills

 

Erannis defoliaria/vancouverensis  (Lep.: Geometridae)
Kirsten Mills

 

Cindy Hayes writes: I live in Cedar at the north end of Quennell Lake and found a deceased Cinnabar Moth on June 2, 2023.


Cinnabar Moth  Tyria jacobaeae  (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)
Cindy Hayes