2023 May 14 evening

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 evening

More invertebrates by Ian Cooper photographed along the Galloping Goose Trail in *Saanich and #View Royal on May 09, 10 and 11.

*Aphid adult and newborns (Hem.: Aphididae) Ian Cooper

#Crab spider Xysticus cristatus (Ara.: Thomisidae) Ian Cooper

#Rhyparochromus vulgaris (Hem.: Rhyparochromidae)

Ian Cooper

*Soldier beetle (Col.: Cantharidae) Ian Cooper

Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae- Arctiinae) Ian Cooper

Jumping spider (Ara.: Salticidae) Ian Cooper

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