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 30

2017 October 30

 

   Rosemary Jorna writes:  Here is another small insect from East Sooke  This little lady beetle, 3 mm, landed on my pants while we were enjoying the sun and sea at Iron Mine Bay on Friday October 27.  Charlene Wood writes:  It’s a tiny coccinellid in the genus Psyllobora, of which there are two species in our area: P. vigintimaculata and P. borealis.

 


Psyllobora vigintimaculata or borealis (Col.: Coccinellidae)   Rosemary Jorna