November 6

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.

2020 November 6

A woodlouse and two slugs photographed by Ian Cooper in Colquitz Creek Park and the Galloping Goose Trail.

Oniscus asellus (Isopoda: Oniscidae) Ian Cooper

Probably Arion rufus (Pul.: Arionidae) Ian Cooper

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

Short videos of the woodlouse and the Banana Slug can be viewed at

https://tinyurl.com/y269trrk and https://tinyurl.com/y3s2kkd2

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