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 August 1 evening

2023 August 1 evening

   Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin:  At William Head Road, we continue to have at least one resident Lorquin’s Admiral, and several transient swallowtails and Cabbage Whites.  I also saw my first Woodland Skipper – but only briefly. Other than that, I can offer the picture of a dragonfly, which kindly settled on the house for a few seconds.

Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Aziza Cooper writes:  Today, August 1, at Pedder Bay, there was one Pine White, one Cabbage White and two Woodland Skippers.

But at Swan Lake, writes Jeremy Tatum, the Woodland Skippers were too many to count!