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 16

2023 March 16

 

 

   Invertebrates photographed by Ian Cooper last night along the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

 

 

 

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Female Pimoa altioculata (Ara: Pimoidae)  Ian Cooper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Female linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)   Ian Cooper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Two Grey Field Slugs in copula    Deroceras reticulatum

(Pul.: Agriolimacidae)                                        Ian Cooper