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 21

2018 March 21

 

   Bud Logan photographed a rather fierce-looking spider at about 500 metres elevation in Strathcona Park.  Thanks to Dr Bennett  for identifying it as a male orbweaver of the genus Araneus, probably A. saevus

 

 

Male Araneus (probably saevus) (Ara.: Araneidae)  Bud Logan

 

Male Araneus (probably saevus) (Ara.: Araneidae)  Bud Logan