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 25

2023 April 25

 

Jeff Gaskin writes: One Mourning Cloak flew by the Blenkinsop Lake
bridge around noon today, April 25.

 

Cheryl Hoyle sends a picture of a slug from Matheson Lake:

 

 

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Arion rufus  (Pul.: Arionidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

   Cheryl follows thism up by writing:  I was at the Stoneridge Wetlands this afternoon and came across more Arion rufus and thought I would share all three photos showing the colour variations.

 

 

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Arion rufus  (Pul.: Arionidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

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Arion rufus  (Pul.: Arionidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

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Arion rufus  (Pul.: Arionidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 Jeremy Tatum sends a picture of a moth from near Blenkinsop Lake:

 

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Paraseptis adnixa (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum