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 6

2023 September 6

   Ron Flower photographed a butterfly and a beetle at Outerbridge Park on September 4:

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Ron Flower

June Beetle Polyphylla crinita (Col.: Scarabaeidae)  Ron Flower

Jeff Gaskin writes: On September 2, I went up Christmas Hill and between 4:45 p.m. and 5:05 p.m there was a very worn Red Admiral and an even more worn Painted Lady there.

Marie O’Shaughnessy saw a fresh-looking Painted Lady on the ramp to the water at McIntyre reservoir, September 5.  She also saw a Common Green Darner, two Paddle-tailed Darners, a Cardinal Meadowhawk and a male Variegated Meadowhawk, shown below.

Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum
(Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  The caterpillar shown below was found along the railway line north of Cowichan Station in June.  The adult moth emerged from its pupa yesterday, September 5.  The larval foodplant was Geum macrophyllum.

Xylena curvimacula (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Xylena curvimacula (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum