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.

January 16

2021 January 16

 

   Yesterday we showed the entrance to the home of a trapdoor spider.  Ian Cooper paid a courtesy visit yesterday to see if anyone was at home.  He got an answer –

 

Trapdoor Spider Antrodiaetus pacificus (Ara – Myg: Antrodiaetidae)  Ian Cooper

   Here are more pictures by Ian Cooper from near the 9 km marker on the Galloping Goose Trail, January 14/15.   Thanks to Frans Jannsens for identifying the springtail.

Globose springtail, Dicyrtomina ornata f. saundersi (Collembola – Symphypleona – Dicyrtomidae)

Ian Cooper

Possibly a juvenile Beaded Lancetooth snail, Ancotrema sportella (Pul.: Haplotrematidae)

Ian Cooper

Banana slug – Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

And more from Colquitz River Park:

 

Springtail  Orchesella villosa (Coll.: Orchesellidae) Ian Cooper

 

 

Possibly a very young Ambigolimax valentianus (Pul.: Limacidae)

Ian Cooper

Large Yellow Underwing Moth caterpillar, Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)

Ian Cooper