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 October 19 evening

2022 October 19 evening

    We have here a moth, photographed a Swan Lake by Dr Cara Gibson, and a camel cricket by Ian Cooper along the Galloping Goose Trail.

Erannis vancouverensis/defoliaria  (Lep.: Geometridae) Cara Gibson

Camel cricket Pristoceuthophilus sp. (Orth.: Rhaphidophoridae)  Ian Cooper