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 30 morning

2023 April 30 morning

 

 

   Here is a selection of invertebrates photographed on April 28 by Ian Cooper along the
Galloping Goose Trail.

 

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Seven-spotted Ladybird Beetle  Coccinella septempunctata  (Col.: Coccinellidae)

  Ian Cooper

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Ant  Formica sp.  (Hym.: Formicidae)   Ian Cooper

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Misumena vatia  (Ara.: Thomisidae)  Ian Cooper

 

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Dirt-coloured seed bug   Rhyparochromus vulgaris (Hem.:  Rhyparochromidae)

Ian Cooper