January 22

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.

2018 January 22

Thomas Barbin writes: I’ve got two photos of a Western Black-legged Tick Ixodes pacificus I found on January 16. I actually found it inside my house crawling on a sweater I had worn the day before. I’m assuming it came from the Highlands area.

Western Black-legged Tick Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) Thomas Barbin

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