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 25

2025 January 25

No Invertebrate Alerts were posted on January 22, 23, 24.

   Ian Cooper writes:  I biked over to Clover Point to have “Coffee with the seagulls” this afternoon and, to my complete surprise, I noticed a lady beetle on the wing as I arrived at the shore. I watched it land on a nearby driftwood log, so I grabbed my camera and managed to take some photos and video of it.

Seven-spotted Lady Beetle  Coccinella septempunctata  (Col.: Coccinellidae)   Ian Cooper

Seven-spotted Lady Beetle  Coccinella septempunctata  (Col.: Coccinellidae)   Ian Cooper