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.

August 7

2018 August 7

 

   Annie Pang forwards a photograph of a snipe fly taken by Linda Wincey in Oak Bay, August 6.

Snipe fly   (Dip.:  Rhagionidae)  Linda Wincey

 

   Scott Gilmore writes from Upper Lantzville:  I had 3 Xanthochroina bicolor at my light last night. I have only seen this beetle once before so it was nice to find.

 


Xanthochroina bicolor (Col.: Oedemeridae)   Scott Gilmore

 


Xanthochroina bicolor (Col.: Oedemeridae)   Scott Gilmore