2015 September 1

   Rain at last!  Very welcome rain, though it does mean that no one has reported any butterflies in the last three days.  There are still some Cabbage Whites around.  Our butterfly season often ends rather abruptly at the end of August, but please keep reporting any butterflies that you see – even the commonest ones, so as to delay the onset of S.A.D. as long as possible. 

  Of course some invertebrates actually like the rain.  Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of two Banana Slugs dining on an old mushroom along the Sheringham Point Lighthouse Trail.

Banana Slugs Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae)   Rosemary Jorna

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I have been maintaining an Index of all photographs shown on the site since it started in 2010.  Thanks to the computer savvy of Adam Taylor, to whom very many thanks, it is now possible for you to view and to download the Index.  Just scroll to the top of this site and you will be guided on how to do this with one deft click.  I shall be updating it every few days as new photographs come in and are posted.

  One small project that I am doing is – I am going through all of the Invert Alert postings from today right back to 2010, looking for mistakes and correcting them.  If any viewer is aware of any mistakes in past postings, or if you spot any, please do let me know at  jtatum at uvic.ca so that I can correct them.  I am looking for any sort of mistake – not just major blunders and obvious misidentifications, but also little things such as spelling or punctuation mistakes, or scientific names not set in italic, of photocaptions not centred and so on.   So please do let me know if you spot anything.