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.

October 11

2016 October 11

 

    Some interesting photographs came in today.  Here are a few.  The others are awaiting identification, and we hope to have them up soon.

 

   Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a Western Conifer Seed Bug from View Royal.

 

Western Conifer Seed Bug Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hem.: Coreidae) Cheryl Hoyle

Liam Singh sends photographs of a jumping spider and a bark louse.  The latter is quite a tiny insect, so Liam did well to photograph it.   Thanks to Dr E. Mockford for identifying it.

 

 

Jumping spider Phidippus johnsoni (Ara.: Salticidae) Liam Singh

Bark louse  Ectopsocus californicus (Pso.: Ectopsocidae)  Liam Singh