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.

March 11 morning

2021 March 11 morning

 

   More interesting photographs from Ian Cooper.  All photographs taken overnight in the early morning  of March 10 2021 at Colquitz River Park in Saanich,  and (the spider) along the Galloping Goose trail, 9km marker in View Royal.   Many thanks to Dr Frans Janssens for identifying the springtails and for correcting a Family assignation previously erroneously posted on this site.

 

Probably Protolophus sp. (Opi.: Phalangiidae) Ian Cooper

Slug, probably Arion distinctus  (Puil.: Arionidae) Ian Cooper

 

Grey Field Slug Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae) Ian Cooper

Rough Woodlouse Porcellio scaber (Isopoda: Porcellionidae) Ian Cooper

Springtail  Orchesella villosa (Coll.: Orchesellidae) Ian Cooper

 

Adult female  Orchesella cincta (Coll.: Orchesellidae) Ian Cooper

 

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