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.

April 15

2016 April 15

 

   Annie Pang sends a photograph of a bee fly, Bombylius sp.  This is a large genus, but the fly shown seems to resemble closely a female B. major.  They throw their eggs down the holes of mining bees.

 

 Bee fly Bombylius sp. (probably major)  (Dip.: Bombyliidae)  Anne Pang