2024 November 26

No Invertebrate Alert was issued on November 25.

Michele Hannem sends a photograph of one of three Cabbage White chrysalides that she found on the walls of her house in Metchosin.

Cabbage White  Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)   Michele Hannem

Ian Cooper writes:  I had a good photo shoot at Colquitz River Park in Saanich and the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal overnight.

.  We start with Ian’s photograph of an unusual (but apparently not uncommon) introduced Caucasian slug, known as the Worm Slug, which spends much of its time unseen burrowing underground.

Worm Slug  Boettgerilla pallens (Pul.: Boettgerillidae) Ian Cooper

Lauria cylindracea  (Pul.:  Lauriidae)   Ian Cooper

More tomorrow…