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 March 8

2023 March 8

 

 

Here is a selection of miscellaneous invertebrates photographed by Ian Cooper at the
Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal or in Colquitz River Park last night

 

 

 

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Snout Mite (Acari: Bdellidae) Ian Cooper

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Grey Field Slug  Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)  Ian Cooper

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Female Linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)  Ian Cooper

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Crane fly or Winter gnat (Dip.: Tipulidae or Trichoceridae) Ian Cooper

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Spider, possibly Linyphantes sp. (Ara.: Linyphiidae)

Springtail, possibly Ptenothrix sp. (Coll.: Dicyrtomidae) 

 Ian Cooper

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 Hydriomena nubilofasciata (Lep.: Geometridae) Ian Cooper