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 27

2023 April 27

 

   Ron Flower reports two Western Spring Azures from the Goldstream River this morning.   These are the first of this species reported to Invert Alert this year.   Jeremy Tatum reports a California Tortoiseshell from the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 5:45 this evening.

 

 

   Ian Cooper photographed these two snails along the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

 

 

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

Arion  sp. (Pul.: Arionidae)

Ian Cooper