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 14

2016 November 14

 

   Morgan Davies sends a picture of a beetle that was found during the course of ecological restoration of Ammophila grass on Sidney Island on November 6.  Thanks to Scott Gilmore for the identification.

 

Northern Carrion Beetle Thanatophilus lapponicus (Col.: Silphidae) Morgan Davies