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 June 29 morning

2023 June 29 morning

    Ian Cooper sends a photograph of a jumping spider:  Thomas Barbin writes: A nice-looking Salticus scenicus.

  Salticus scenicus  (Ara.: Salticidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Thomas Barbin sends a photograph of the moth Ditula angustiorana from Mount Tolmie:

                    Ditula angustiorana (Lep.: Tortricidae)   Thomas Barbin