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.

2023 January 10

2023 January 10

 

   More creatures in the last few days and nights from Ian Cooper at *Colquitz Creek Park or the #Galloping Goose Trail, View Royal.

 

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*Arion subfuscus (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

 

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*Lauria cylindracia (Pul.: Lauriidae)  Ian Cooper

 

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#Callobius severus (Ara.: Amaurobiidae)  Ian Cooper

 

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#Tetragnatha versicolor (Ara.: Tetragnathidae)  Ian Cooper

 

 

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#Unidentified nematoceran fly  (Diptera – Nematocera)  Ian Cooper

 

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*Plectura spinicauda (Col.: Cerambycidae)  Ian Cooper

It is still early days in 2023, but soon time  to keep a lookout for a few early moths.  Although they usually appear in February, it is worth looking out for Egira hiemalis (Noctuidae) and Phigalia plumogeraria (Geometridae).  The earliest Invert Alert record for the former is January 16, and for the latter January 19.