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 26 morning

2023 June 26 morning

   Aziza Cooper writes:  On Friday, June 23, at Goldstream railroad tracks, six Lorquin’s Admirals were puddling together, plus four others nearby. Also on June 23, a bee was on purple honeysuckle.   [Jeremy Tatum writes:  We thank Steven Roias for the identification of the bee.]

 

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Aziza Cooper

 

Male Bombus mixtus (Hym.: Apidae) Aziza Cooper

 

Jeremy Tatum shows a female Satyr Comma – from the chrysalis shown on June 16.  The butterfly was released along the Lochside Trail north of Blenkinsop Lake.  With luck you may see it there.

Female Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Jeremy Tatum

 

This Green Lacewing was photographed by Ian Cooper on May 28 in View Royal.  We thank Dr Cara Gibson for the identkfication.

Chrysoperla rufilabris  (Neu.: Chrysopidae)   Ian Cooper