2022 September 23 evening

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 23 evening

Gordon Hart photographed this very cryptically-patterned grasshopper on Christmas Hill on September 21. Thanks to Darren and Claudia Copley for identifying it as Trimerotropis sp., and James Miskelly for narrowing it down to Trimerotropis fontana.

Crackling Forest Grasshopper Trimerotropis fontana (Orth.: Acrididae) Gordon Hart

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