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.

November 11

2020 November 11

    Ian  Cooper has been getting some interesting photographs of unfamiliar creatures at Colquitz River Park by getting down on his hands and knees and searching in the ground detritus.  Most harvestmen that we see are the common European Phalangium opiliio, but the one shown below , identified by Dr Philip Bragg, is the less familiar Paroligolophus agrestis.

 

 


Paroligolophus agrestis (Opi.: Phalangiidae) Ian Cooper

   Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for identifying the spider below as an immature male Philodromus dispar.

Immature male running crab spider Philodromus dispar (Ara.: Philodromidae)

  Ian Cooper

Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)  Ian Cooper

Red Cross Shield Bug  Elasmostethus cruciatus (Hem.: Acanthosomatidae)  Ian Cooper

Red Cross Shield Bug  Elasmostethus cruciatus (Hem.: Acanthosomatidae)  Ian Cooper

Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Ian Cooper

   The snail below was less than 2 mm long.  Probably Lauria cylindracea


Probably Lauria cylindracea sp. (Pul.: Lauriidae)  Ian Cooper