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 August 27

2024 August 27

  In yesterday’s posting, the first two of Marie O’Shaughnessy’s photographs showed typical resting positions of a pondhawk (on the ground) and other libellulids, (horizontally on a twig). Today, she shows the typical resting position of an aeshnid, hanging vertically, in this case a Blue-eyed Darner on July 27:

 

Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy