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 October 27 morning

2024 October 27 morning

   More October 25 predawn pictures by Ian Cooper from Colquitz River Park.

Springtail Orchesella villosa (Coll.: Orchesellidae)   Ian Cooper

Globose Springtail, Dicyrtomina minuta f. saundersi  (Coll.: Dicyrtominidae)   Ian Cooper

Globose Springtail, Dicyrtomina minuta f. saundersi  (Coll.: Dicyrtominidae)   Ian Cooper

Common Striped Woodlouse Philoscia muscorum (Isopoda: Oniscidae)   Ian Cooper

Unidentified Nematoceran fly. (Dip. – Nematocera)   Ian Cooper

Long-jawed orb weaver – (Ara.: Tetragnathidae)   Ian Cooper