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 November 26

2022 November 26

     Ian Cooper sends more photographs from his middle-of-the night session yesterday morning.  These are four different identified species of woodlice, and two flies, which we despair of identifying.

European Sowbug  Oniscus asellus (Isopoda: Oniscidae) Ian Cooper

 

Common Rough Woodlouse  Porcellio scaber (Isopoda: Porcellionidae) Ian Cooper

 

Common striped woodlouse  Philoscia muscorum (Isopoda: Oniscidae) Ian Cooper

Common Pill Bug  Armadillidium vulgare (Isopoda: Armadillidiidae)  Ian Cooper

Unidentified fly (Diptera – Nematocera)  Ian Cooper

 

Unidentified fly (Diptera)  Ian Cooper