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 30

2021 March 30

 

   Val George saw his first butterfly of the year.  It was a California Tortoiseshell sunning itself on the Mount Tolmie reservoir.

California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Val George

 

 

   Here are more fascinating night-time photographs by Ian Cooper from the Galloping Goose Trail and Colquitz River Park.   Thanks to Charlene Wood for confirming Ian’s identification of the first two insects.

Nut Leaf Weevil Strophosoma melanogrammum (Col.: Curculionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Nut Leaf Weevil Strophosoma melanogrammum (Col.: Curculionidae)  Ian Cooper

Ground beetle larva (Col.: Carabidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Millepede, possibly Ophyiulus pilosus (Diplopoda: Julidae) Ian Cooper

 


Lauria cylindracea (Pul.: Lauriidae) Ian Cooper

 

Possibly Prophysaon sp. (Pul.:  Anadeniidae)  Ian Cooper

 


Arion rufus (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Female spider, Neriene sp. (Ara.: Linyphiidae) Ian Cooper

 

Probably Philodromus dispar (Ara.: Philodromidae)