2022 October 9 morning

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 October 9 morning

Here’s a recent photograph of a harvestman by Ian Cooper.

Harvestman (Opiliones) Ian Cooper

October is the month when we see Banded Woolly Bears – the caterpillars of the Isabella Tiger Moth Pyrrharctia isabella. Here’s one from Panama Flats:

Pyrrharctia isabella (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae) Jeremy Tatum

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