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 18

2021 January 18

 

Here are the results of another night-time foray by Ian Cooper into Colquitz River Park or the Galloping Goose Trail, 9 km marker.

 

Linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae) Colquitz Creek    Ian Cooper

Dark-bodied Glass Snail, Oxychilus draparnaudi (Pul.: Daubebariidae)  Galloping Goose

Ian Cooper

  Brown Field Slug Deroceras panormitanum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae) Ian Cooper

 

Rough Woodlouse, Porcellio scaber (Isopoda: Porcellionidae)    Colquitz Creek     Ian Cooper

 

Leopard slug, Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae)  Colquitz Creek     Ian Cooper

Also known as Giant Garden Slug or Great Grey Slug