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.

June 30 morning

2017 July 30 morning

 

   Monthly Butterfly Walk The monthly butterfly walk will be this Sunday, July 2.  We will meet at Mount Tolmie at 1 p.m.. You can park at the main parking lot north of the summit, or in the lot by the reservoir where we will have an initial look for butterflies and then decide where to go from there.
Hope to see you Sunday!
-Gordon Hart

 

Jeremy Tatum writes: If more photographs of observations come in during the day, I may get round to posting them this evening, but I thought I’d better get Gordon’s notice up now.

 

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Invert Alert Temporary Close-down.  I shall be going away on holiday from July 6 – 22, and it is very unlikely that I shall be able to run Invert Alert during that period.  It may be difficult for me to deal with hundreds of contributions when I get back, so maybe go easy on the number of photos of our most frequently-photographed insects.  However, we don’t want to lose exciting or rare observations, so by all means send in a few of your most exciting photos when I get back.