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.

2025 January 11

2025 January 11

Here’s a selection of creatures photographed by Ian Cooper in View Royal last night.

Soldier beetle larva  (Col.: Cantharidae)   Ian Cooper

    Jeremy Tatum writes:  This could easily be mistaken for a moth caterpillar.   Indeed, I did so myself once, and would probably have done so again if Ian hadn’t pointed out that this is a soldier beetle grub.

 

Possibly a juvenile Cybaeus sp. (Ara.: Cybaeidae)   Ian Cooper

Forest Spider  Pimoa altioculata (Ara: Pimoidae)   Ian Cooper

  • Possibly a juvenile Beaded Lancetooth snail, Ancotrema sportella  (Pul.: Haplotrematidae)
    Ian Cooper

Tiny snail, possibly a Dot Snail   (Ara.: Punctidae)   Ian Cooper

 

Grey Field Slug  Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)   Ian Cooper