2024 March 5

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.

2024 March 5

Jeremy Tatum writes: This bug came into my Saanich apartment this morning. Some bugs can deliver a painful bite; others can’t. I don’t know whether this one can or cannot – I don’t care to find out by experiment.

Brochymena affinis (Hem.: Pentatomidae) Jeremy Tatum

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