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.

2023 January 14 evening

2023 January 14 evening

 

   More creatures in the last few days and nights from Ian Cooper at *Colquitz Creek Park or the #Galloping Goose Trail, View Royal.

 

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*Metellina sp. (Ara.: Tetragnathidae)  Ian Cooper

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#Philodromus dispar (Ara.: Philodromidae) Ian Cooper

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#Unidentified Fly (Dip.: possibly Sciaridae)  Ian Cooper

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Grey Field Slug, Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)

Ian Cooper

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Flat-backed Millepede – Scytonotus sp.  (Polydesmidae)

Ian Cooper

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*Globular springtail, Ptenothrix sp. (Coll.: Dicyrtomidae)

Ian Cooper

Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a Western Conifer Seed Bug from View Royal, January 13:

 

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Western Conifer Seed Bug Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hem.:Coreidae)

Cheryl Hoyle

  Jochen Möhr sends photographs of a Winter Moth and two unidentified tortricid moths from Metchosin, which, in spite of their different appearances, may possibly be of one species within the genus Acleris.

 

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Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

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Possibly Acleris sp. (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jochen Möhr

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Possibly Acleris sp. (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jochen Möhr