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 November 1 morning

2024 November 1 morning

Ian Cooper writes:  Here are six more pre-dawn pictures taken on October 31  at *Colquitz River Park and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

 

*Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctudae)  Ian Cooper

Yellow-bordered Taildropper Prophysaon foliolatum (Pul.: Anadeniidae)  Ian Cooper

*Arion hortensis (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

#Orb weaver, Metellina sp. (possibly M. curtisi) (Ara.: Tetragnathidae)  Ian Cooper

*Harvestmen – Oligolophus tridens  (Opiliones: Phalangiidae)  Ian Cooper

 

*Female European Earwig  Forficula auricularia  (Derm.: Forficulidae)  Ian Cooper

   Compare the shape of the cerci with those of the male shown on October 25 morning