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.

October 1

2018 October 1

 

    Scott Gilmore writes from Upper Lantzville:  I found a couple of really tiny [3-4 mm] beetles in some oyster fungi on Saturday. The one with the red pronotum is from the genus Triplax from the family Erotylidae; the other one is Namunaria pacifica from the family Zopheridae.


Triplax sp. (Col.: Erotylidae)   Scott Gilmore

 


Namunaria pacifica (Col.: Zopheridae)

Scott Gilmore