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 October 7 evening

2024 October 7 evening

Banded Woolly Bears:   Val George writes:  I’ve seen two or three in the last week; this morning, October 7, there were three crossing the trails at Swan Lake.  Jeff Gaskin writes:   Today, Monday October 7, at Panama Flats I saw at least 2 Cabbage Whites, a Common Green Darner and one Banded Wooly Bear.

Tricky spelling:
British:         Woolly
American:    Wooly
Canadian:     Take your choice