April 9

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.

2021 April 9

It is still a wee bit cold for many moths and other insects, but Jochen Möhr got a few at his new house in Metchosin last night. First, a nematoceran fly. The choice is most probably between Tipulidae and Trichoceridae. For gnats like these, it is sometimes helpful for a very close-up of the top of the head and the top of the thorax.