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.

2024 June 20 evening

2024 June 20 evening

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today, June 20, I found my first of year European (Essex) Skippers.  At least five were at Panama Flats on the north west side.  Also, there were two Common Green Darners and one Lorquin’s Admiral.  A Western Tiger Swallowtail was on Wascana Street.

Jeremy Tatum writes that, at 6:45 pm on the top of Mount Tolmie, there was a Red Admiral sunning itself on one of the white spots on the surface of the reservoir, a Western Tiger Swallowtail was nectaring on the Philadelphus, and a Painted Lady was flying around the Jeffrey Pine.