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.

December 2

2020 December 2

 

   Here are some globose springtails photographed in Colquitz River Park by Ian Cooper, and kindly identified for us by Dr Frans Janssens:

 


Ptenothrix maculosa olympia

(Collembola – Symphypleona – Dicyrtomidae) Ian Cooper


Ptenothrix maculosa olympia

(Collembola – Symphypleona – Dicyrtomidae) Ian Cooper


Ptenothrix maculosa olympia

(Collembola – Symphypleona – Dicyrtomidae) Ian Cooper


Ptenothrix maculosa olympia

(Collembola – Symphypleona – Dicyrtomidae) Ian Cooper


Dicyrtomina minuta forma saundersi

(Collembola – Symphypleona – Dicyrtomidae) Ian Cooper

   And a variety of other creatures:

 

European Winter Moths Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Ian Cooper

Woodlouse Hunter Spider Dysdera crocata (Ara.:  Dysderidae) Ian Cooper

See video here: https://tinyurl.com/y22hrvbu


Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Ian Cooper

Tiny ( 2mm) spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae) Ian Cooper