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 August 3

2023 August 3

   Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed a number of exuviae (cast skins) of emerging dragonflies and damselflies in the Cowichan Valley on August 1.  Accurate identification of exuviae from photographs is a bit of a challenge, but Dr Rob Cannings suggests that the damselflies are probably Enallagma annexum or boreale, and the dragonfly is probably Rhionaeschna multicolor.

  Enallagma annexum/boreale  (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Probably Enallagma annexum/boreale  (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Probably Enallagma annexum/boreale  (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Probably Enallagma annexum/boreale  (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Probably Rhionaeschna multicolor  (Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Cheryl Hoyle photographed this Shadow Darner at Esquimalt Lagoon, August 2:

Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

Jeremy Tatum writes: There were one Painted Lady  and one Red Admiral on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 5:30 today, August 3.