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.

February 19

2019 February 19

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I haven’t seen many invertebrates during the recent spell of wintry weather, so I have been reduced to photographing a Common Firebrat in my apartment building.

 

Common Firebrat Thermobia domestica (Thy.: Lepismatidae)   Jeremy Tatum