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 13

2023 March 13

 

A few more invertebrates photographed by Ian Cooper, March 13, at *Colquitz Creek Park or the #Galloping Goose Trail, View Royal.

 

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#Probably Arion subfuscus (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

 

 

 

 

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*Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)  Ian Cooper

 

 

 

 

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Snout mite (Acari:  Bdellidae)  Ian Cooper

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Pimoa altioculata (Ara: Pimoidae)  Ian Cooper

 

 

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Tetragnatha versicolor (Ara.: Tetragnathidae)  Ian Cooper

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Hydriomena nubilofasciata (Lep.: Geometridae) Ian Cooper

   Rosemary Jorna photographed a fly on March 11 on the beach between Muir and Kirby Creek.

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Kelp fly (Dip.: Coelopidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

 

 

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Kelp fly (Dip.: Coelopidae)  Rosemary Jorna