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.

2024 July 18 morning

2024 July 18 morning

On July 15, Marie O’Shaughnessy wrote:

I saw these dragonflies at Swan Lake:
48 Blue Dashers
4 Western Pondhawks
1 Common Green Darner
2 Blue-eyed Darners
3  Eight-spotted Spotted Skimmers
4  Black Saddlebags
2 Cardinal Meadowhawks
1  Four-spotted Skimmers 

 Marie sent these photographs:

Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis  (Odo.: libellulidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy

Western Pondhawks  Erythemis collocata  (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Black Saddlebags  Tramea lacerata  (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Black Saddlebags  Tramea lacerata  (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

A photograph of a lady beetle that was formerly here has been moved to 2024 July 18 evening.

 

The photograph below, taken at Jeremy Tatum’s Saanich apartment, is obviously a pug of the genus Eupithecia  – but beyond that I don’t think we can go.


Eupithecia sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum