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 1

2016 November 1

 

   Rosemary Jorna sends pictures of a Rose Leafhopper ovipositing in a rose stem in her garden at Kemp Lake Road, October 31.  The position of the antennae between the eyes (rather than at the side of the head) plus the spines on the hind tibiae place this bug firmly in the Family Cicadellidae rather than in other closely-related families.

 


Edwardsiana rosae (Hem.: Cicadellidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

Edwardsiana rosae (Hem.: Cicadellidae)  Rosemary Jorna