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.

2022 October 20 evening

2022 October 20 evening

 Corrigendum.  On September 23 evening we posted a photograph by Gordon Hart of a grasshopper, which we labelled Trimerotropis verruculata.  James Miskelly pointed out that it is more likely to be  T. fontana.  Gordon went through his photographs of the same individual and he found one that showed its bright blue tibia, showing that it is indeed fontana. We are grateful to James for spotting the mistake.  We have corrected the September 23 caption, and we show the new photograph below.

Trimerotropis fontana (Orth.:  Acrididae)  Gordon Hart

 

Invert Alert has a backlog of quite a few photographs.  Apologies for the delay – we’ll get them up as soon as we can!