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.

2024 September 8

   Ian Cooper sends some photographs from his overnight shoot of September 6/7.

Male Eratigena atrica (Ara: Agelenidae)   Ian Cooper

Female Eratigena agrestis (Ara: Agelenidae)   Ian Cooper

Thread Bug  Empicoris sp.  (Hem.: Reduviidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Banana Slug  Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae)   Ian Cooper

Jumping Bristletail – Pedetontus saltator (Microcoryphia – Machilidae)

 

Crane Fly  (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Ian Cooper