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 20

2021 January 20

 

    Two photographs by Ian Cooper from the 9 km marker, Galloping Goose, January 19.

The first is a “leatherjacket” – the larva of a crane fly, most likely Tipula paludosa.

 

Probably Tipula paludosa (Dip.: Tipulidae)    Ian Cooper

   Next is a running crab spider of the Family Philodromidae.  Dr Robb Bennett says genus Philodromus or Rhysodromus.

 

Running crab spider  Philodromus/Rhysodromus (Ara.: Philodromidae)  Ian Cooper

 

 

Jochen Möhr photographed this micro moth in Metchosin.  We don’t know what it is, although Libby Avis suggests possibly from the large depressariid  genus Agonopterix.

 

Possibly Depressariidae    Jochen Möhr