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.

October 5

2015 October 5

 

    Gordon Hart sends a picture of a rather unkempt-looking Yellow Woolly Bear from his Highlands yard.  It has since started to make a cocoon. He also sends a picture of one of two Cabbage Whites from Fort Rodd Hill.

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

 

Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)   Gordon Hart.

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Halfway down the east slope of Mount Tolmie there is a huge mass of flowering Ivy, in full bloom now.  You can smell it (a pleasant smell) from quite a way off.  I know that English Ivy is not everyone’s favorite plant, but the blossoms are attracting large numbers of interesting bees, wasps and flies; and today, at about 4:00 p.m., there were 2 Red Admirals there.  I stayed there for 40 minutes just watching them – I could barely tear myself away, they were so beautiful.