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 November 5

2024 November 5

   This American Tissue Moth flew into Jeremy Tatum’s Saanich apartment this morning.

Triphosa haesitata  (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum

 

Some pictures from an overnight photo shoot by Ian Cooper in View Royal:

Flat-backed Millepede  Scytonotus sp. (Diplopoda:  Polydesmidae)   Ian Cooper

Snakefly  larva   (Raphidioptera)   Ian Cooper

Scoliocentra flavotestacea (Dip.: Heleomyzidae)   Ian Cooper

Leptobunus parvulus (Opiliones: Phalangiidae)   Ian Cooper

Unidentified linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)   Ian Cooper

 

Long-jawed Orb Weaver, Metellina (possibly curtisi) (Ara.: Tetragnathidae)   Ian Cooper