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 25 evening

2023 August 25 evening

  This hover fly was photographed by Aziza Cooper at Rithet’s Bog on August 22:

Myathropa florea (Dip.: Syrphidae) Aziza Cooper

 

  This dragonfly was photographed by Kirsten Mills at Green Park Drive, North Saanich, on August 24.  It was formerly known as the Yellow-legged Meadowhawk, but its name has been changed to Autumn Meadowhawk.

Autumn Meadowhawk Sympetrum vicinum (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Kirsten Mills

Autumn Meadowhawk Sympetrum vicinum (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Kirsten Mills

 

This jewel beetle was photographed by Marie O’Shaughnessy at Beckwith Park, August 25.  We thank Scott Gilmore for identifying it as being from the genus Dicerca.

Dicerca sp. (Col.: Buprestidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Few butterflies other than Cabbage Whites and Woodland Skippers are around just now, although Aziza Cooper reports that a Red Admiral was still present on the Mount Tolmie reservoir on August 24