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.

March 2

2021 March 2

 

   Mr E sends photographs of a weevil, kindly identified by Scott Gilmore as an Obscure Root Weevil Sciopithes obscurus.  Photographs taken on March1, as were all photographs in this posting.

 

Obscure Root Weevil Sciopithes obscurus (Col.: Curculionidae)    Mr E

 

Obscure Root Weevil Sciopithes obscurus (Col.: Curculionidae)    Mr E

      Ian Cooper sends photographs of a snail and a slug from Colquitz River Park:


Lauria cylindracea (Pul.: Lauriidae) Ian Cooper


Brown Field Slug Deroceras panormitanum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)

And more slugs from the Galloping Goose Trail, View Royal:

 

Banana slug – Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae) Ian Cooper

A very young Arion hortensis agg. (Pul.: Arionidae) Ian Cooper


Cryptomastix germana or Vespericola columbianus (Pul.: Polygyridae) Ian Cooper