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 6 evening

2023 June 6 evening

    Here are some photographs by Marie O’Shaughnessy on June 5 of butterflies on Mount Tolmie and dragon/damselflies (“odonates”) at Swan Lake.

 

Anise Swallowtail  Papilio zelicaon  (Lep.: Papilionidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Anise Swallowtail  Papilio zelicaon  (Lep.: Papilionidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon  (Lep.: Papilionidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Tule Bluets  Enallagma carunculatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Paddletail Darner Aeshna palmata  (Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

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

 

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

 

Left:   Malacosoma disstria (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)
Right: Pachydiplax longipennis  (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Jeremy Tatum writes:  Mount Tolmie this evening, 5:45 pm,  one each of Western Spring Azure, Pacific Coast Lady, Red Admiral, Lorquin’s Admiral and a few Western Tiger Swallowtails.

Jeff Gaskin writes:   Today, June 6, there was a Common Whitetail in Cuthbert Holmes Park.  Also, here today were an Eight-spotted Skimmer and several Blue-eyed Darners.   Butterflies were the usual 5 or 6 Lorquin’s Admirals, some Western Tiger Swallowtails and a few Cabbage Whites.