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 28

2024 October 28

   Val George writes:  This morning, October 28, there were three Autumnal Moths Epirrita autumnata on the walls of the Nature House at Goldstream Park.   [Dead on time!, writes Jeremy Tatum.]

 

Autumnal Moth Epirrita autumnata   (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Jeff Gaskin writes:   Today, October 28th, Kirsten Mills saw a Cabbage White on Kings Road between Blanshard Street and Quadra Street, Victoria.

 

Ian Cooper writes:   Here are six pictures from my overnight photoshoot at View Royal near the 9 km marker.

Snail-eating Beetle  Scaphinotus angusticollis (Col.: Carabidae)  Ian Cooper

Ground Beetle  Pterostichus sp. (Col.: Carabidae)  Ian Cooper

Harvestman, probably Leptobunus parvulus (Opiliones: Phalangiidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Female Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae)  Ian Cooper

Yellow-Bordered Taildropper – Prophysaon foliolatum (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

Banded Garden Snail  Cepaea nemoralis (Pul.: Helicidae)  Ian Cooper