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.

September 27

2020 September 27

 

   Some slugs and a beetle from the Galloping Goose Trail, photographed by Ian Cooper.  Congratulations to Ian for gallantly rescuing some of the slugs by transferring them from the trail (where they were in danger of being  squashed) to the adjacent vegetation.  I often do that myself! (Jeremy Tatum).  Being squashed is not the only danger they face.  The beetle shown has a taste for slugs and snails.

 


Arion rufus (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

 


Arion rufus (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Snail-eating beetle Scaphinotus angusticollis (Col.: Carabidae)  Ian Cooper

 

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Agriphila (possibly straminella)

4 Dryotype opina

1 Dysstroma citrata

8 Ennomos magnaria    

3 Nepytia phantasmaria 

1 Noctua pronuba

2 Pleromelloida cinerea

1 Plemyria georgii

 


Dryotype opina (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Agriphila (probably straminella or plumbifimbriellus) (Lep.: Crambidae)  Jochen Möhr