2024 September 12 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.

A few more pictures from Ian Cooper’s Sept 8 / 9 photo excursion to ^ Colquitz River Park and the # Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal, near the 9 km marker.

Uncertain, Possibly a ^ Long-jawed Orb Weaver, Metellina sp. (Ara.: Tetragnathidae) Ian Cooper

# Cybaeus signifer (Ara.: Cybaeidae) Ian Cooper

Harvestman – Leptobunus parvulus (Opiliones: Phalangiidae) Ian Cooper
Thanks to Dr Philip Bragg for verifying the identification

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