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 April 19

2023 April 19

   Ian Cooper writes:   Here are a selection of the pictures taken yesterday, April 18, or this morning, April 19, at *Colquitz River Park in Saanich and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

 

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*Linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)  Ian Cooper

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*Common Striped Woodlouse – Philoscia muscorum (Isopoda: Oniscidae)  Ian Cooper

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#Male Non-biting Midge (Dip.: Chironomidae)  Ian Cooper

 

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#Female Non-biting Midge (Dip.: Chironomidae)  Ian Cooper

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#Grey Field Slug – Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)

Ian Cooper

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 #Snout mite  (Acari:  Bdellidae)   Ian Cooper