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.

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2018 October 17

 

   Bryan Gates writes:  I cleaned out 40+ nest boxes at the Uplands Golf Course today. This spider was encountered in at least five boxes, along with other spiders not photographed.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I think this is… well, I shan’t say what I thought it was, for Robb  Bennett writes:  Oops – go to the back of the class until such time as you have an opportunity to redeem yourself.  It’s an amaurobiid – Callobius severus.

 


Callobius severus (Ara.: Amaurobiidae)   Bryan Gates