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 May 14 morning

2023 May 14 morning

 

 

Jeremy Tatum writes:  There were two moths at my Saanich apartment this morning:

 

 

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Possibly Eupithecia annulata   (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

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Euthyatira pudens   (Lep.: Drepanidae  – Thyatirinae)   Jeremy Tatum

  Here are some invertebrates photographed by Ian Cooper taken along the Galloping Goose Trail in *Saanich and #View Royal on the afternoon of May 09, 2023.

 

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#Spiderlings, probably Araneus diadematus   (Ara.: Araneidae)   Ian Cooper

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#Metaphidippus manni  (Ara.: Salticidae) Ian Cooper

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#Tibellus oblongus (Ara.:  Philodromidae)   Ian Cooper

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#Crab spider Xysticus  (Ara.: Thomisidae)

with snakefly (Rhaphidioptera)

Ian Cooper

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*Harvestman  (Opiliones)   Ian Cooper

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*Harvestman  (Opiliones) Ian Cooper