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 November 15 morning

2024 November 15 morning

No Invert Alerts were issued on November 13 or 14.

However, Jeff Gaskin tells us that Kirsten Mills saw a Cabbage White by the model aircraft field out at Martindale Flats on November 14, and a darner dragonfly species – either Paddle-tailed or Shadow -Darner was seen at Island View Beach.   Today is forecast to be a sunny day, so a butterfly is still possible.

Aziza Cooper saw a dragonfly, and photographed this drone fly yesterday at Jordan River.  Thanks to Dr Jeff Skevington for identifying it as Eristalis sp.

 

Eristalis sp. (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Aziza Cooper