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.

November 11

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   Rosemary Jorna sends some pictures of spiders from Otter Point.  Rated PG – but Robb Bennett, who kindly identified them for us, says that their bark is worse than their bite.

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Wolf spider Pardosa sp. (Ara.:  Lycosidae) Rosemary Jorna

Wolf spider Pardosa sp. (Ara.:  Lycosidae) Rosemary Jorna

Female Garden Spider Araneus diadematus (Ara.:  Araneidae)  Rosemary Jorna

   Jeremy Tatum sends a picture of a bug from the garden of his Saanich apartment building today. This bug is predaceous, feeding on caterpillars and other soft-bodied invertebrates.

Rough stink bug Brochymena sp. (Hem.: Pentatomidae)   Jeremy Tatum