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.

April 28

2015 April 28

 

   Annie Pang sends a photo of a Flesh fly Sarcophaga sp. from Gorge Park on April 14.

The maggots eat decaying animal flesh.

 

 Flesh fly  Sarcophaga sp. (Dip.: Sarcophagidae)   Annie Pang