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.

2022 June 6 afternoon

2022 June 6 afternoon

    Jochen Möhr writes:   An exodus of a colony of what I only know as “Sugar Ants”.  They are exceedingly tiny, perhaps something like 3 mm long, they are very vivid, and they were running up one of the corners of the home we are in.  Many were carrying tiny white specs.  I think they were transporting their larvae to the new home.  

 

Ants carrying larvae (Hym.: Formicidae)  Jochen Möhr