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.

January 26

2018 January 26

 

   Morgan Davies sends photographs of a noctuid/erebid caterpillar from Sidney Island, January 24.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I don’t know what it is, though I think it is probably the same one as the one illustrated on January 5.

 

Unknown caterpillar (Lep.: Noctuidae or Erebidae) Morgan Davies

 

 

Unknown caterpillar (Lep.: Noctuidae or Erebidae) Morgan Davies

 

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I found this creature in my Saanich apartment building this morning:

 

 

Grey Firebrat Ctenolepisma longicaudata (Thysanura: Lepismatidae)  Jeremy Tatum