INVERTEBRATE ALERT
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.

September 29

2018 September 29

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   No reports today up to 2:00pm, and I probably shan’t be at the computer again today.  I thought I’d just make the following remarks.

 

    The September 2 VNHS monthly Butterfly walk yielded Cabbage White, Woodland Skipper,Ringlet, Purplish Copper.  Since then, it must have seemed to most of us, individually at least, that the butterfly season was over, most of us not seeing more than an occasional Cabbage White.  Yet collectively it has been a good deal more exciting than that.  Since that September 2 Butterfly Walk, the following additional butterflies have been seen, by one enthusiast or another, in the southern Vancouver Island birdwatching area:

 

Monarch

Lorquin’s Admiral

Red Admiral

Painted Lady

American Lady

California Tortoiseshell

Mourning Cloak

Pine White

Grey Hairstreak

 

   Not a bad haul – thirteen species in September.   And still on Vancouver Island, though not in the above area, there have been sightings of Green Comma and Hoary Comma.  And of course there have been many moths, including some spectaculars such as Black Witch and Catocala, and caterpillars of Lappet and Polyphemus moths.