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 September 1

2023 September 1

September Butterfly Walk
Message from Gordon Hart

Hello, Butterfly Watchers,

The last butterfly walk of the year is scheduled for Sunday, September 3. We meet at the top of Mount Tolmie by the reservoir, at 1.00 p.m. You can park in the parking lot there, or in the large lot north of the summit. After a look around the summit, we will decide on a destination from there.

You can review Vancouver Island butterflies at Val George’s website : https://vancouverislandbutterflies.com/

The forecast has improved slightly since yesterday, so if it is mostly sunny at mid-day, the walk will likely go ahead.

Gordon Hart,
Butterfly Count Coordinator
Victoria Natural History Society
Gordon Hart

hartgordon19@gmail.com

 

Gordon sends a photograph of a Yellow Woolly Bear from Maber Flats today:

Yellow Woolly Bear Spilosoma virginica
(Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)
Gordon Hart

 

Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of Neoalcis californiaria from his Saanich apartment today.

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Jeremy continues:  I visited McIntyre reservoir this afternoon.  I saw several Cabbage Whites, one Woodland Skipper, and one Autographa californica.  I also thought (not sure) that I briefly saw a sulphur butterfly.  It might still be worth a look.  (At 4 o’clock there were no culicids.)