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.

March 5

2017 March 5

 

   Rosemary Jorna writes:  This very cold Conifer Seed Bug landed on a fellow hiker’s jacket yesterday afternoon on Larkspur in the Sooke Hills.

 

   Jeremy Tatum comments:  Rosemary was either brave or lucky – not sure which.  I think (not 100 percent certain!) that the Conifer Seed Bug may be OK – but there are some quite similar-looking bugs in the Family Reduviidae that can give a rather nasty and painful poisonous stab. Just look at the length of the rostrum in the view of the underside of Rosemary’s bug! 

 

Conifer Seed Bug Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hem.: Coreidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 Conifer Seed Bug Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hem.: Coreidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

 

Conifer Seed Bug Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hem.: Coreidae)  Rosemary Jorna