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.

2022 September 18

2022 September 18

    Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of a spider and a beetle from View Royal September 17.  Thanks to Scott Gilmore for the beetle identification.

Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

Black Vine Weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus (Col.: Curculionidae)

Cheryl Hoyle

 

Here is a collection of recent photographs taken by Ian Cooper in the middle of the night along the Galloping Goose Trail and in Colquitz River Park.

Stilt bug Neoneides muticus (Hem.: Berytidae)  Ian Cooper

Red Carpenter Ant Camponotus vicinus (Hym.: Formicidae)

Ian Cooper

 

Probably Trogloneta sp. (Ara.: Mysmenidae)  Ian Cooper

Male Neriene sp. (Ara.: Linyphiidae)  Ian Cooper

Metellina sp. (Ara.: Tetragnathidae)  Ian Cooper