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 23 morning

2020 November 23 morning

 

More pictures from Colquitz River Park by Ian Cooper:

 

The spiders were identified by Dr Robb Bennett

 


Clubiona (just possibly lutescens) (Ara.: Clubionidae)  Ian Cooper


Clubiona (just possibly lutescens) (Ara.: Clubionidae)  Ian Cooper


Bathyphantes sp.(Ara.: Linyphiidae)  Ian Cooper

   The springtail was identified to genus by Dr Frans Janssens; views from other angles would be needed to go to species:

 


Ptenothrix sp. (Collembola – Symphypleona – Dicyrtomidae)

Ian Cooper

Dr Robert Forsyth identifies the slug below as one of the Arion subfuscus aggregate

Arion subfuscus agg. (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

Maybe Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae)  Ian Cooper