2021 November 30

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 November 30

Rosemary Jorna sends three views of an isopod from about two metres up a Bigleaf Maple near Kemp Lake yesterday. Jeremy Tatum and Ian Cooper – neither of whom claims to be an expert! – after some discussion, believe this is Oniscus asellus.

European Sowbug Oniscus asellus (Isopoda: Oniscidae) Rosemary Jorna

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