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 March 14

2023 March 14

 

More interesting invertebrates by Ian Cooper this morning.  The springtail is from Colquitz River Park; the others are from the Galloping Goose Trail, View Royal.  The two earthworms (certainly invertebrates!) are in copula.  Although we haveseveral native earthworms, most of the ones we see in suburbia are probably L. terrestris.

 

 

 

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Common Earthworms in copula

Lumbricus terrestris (Hap.: Lumbricidae)

Ian Cooper

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Common striped woodlouse

Philoscia muscorum (Isopoda: Oniscidae)

  Ian Cooper

 

 

 

 

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Springtail  Orchesella villosa (Coll.: Orchesellidae) 

Ian Cooper