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 22

2021 March 22

 

    More photographs by Ian Cooper from Colquitz River Park and the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.   We’ll start with two that we can’t identify.  Suggestions (reasonable ones!) from viewers welcomed.

 

   We don’t know this slug.   Maybe a species of Prophysaon?  Or not?

 

Unknown slug       Ian Cooper

 

  The next one is probably the larva of some nematoceran  fly.

 

Fly larva?       Ian Cooper

 

Snail-eating Beetle Scaphinotus angusticollis (Col.: Carabidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Dark-bodied Glass Snail Oxychilus draparnaudi (Pul.: Daubebariidae) Ian Cooper

 


Cryptomastix germana or Vespericola columbianus (Pul.: Polygyridae)  Ian Cooper

 


Robust Lancetooth – Haplotrema vancouverense (Pul.: Haplotrematidae)

 


Very small snail – Lauria cylindracea (Pul.: Lauriidae) Ian Cooper

 

   Well, it might be a very small snail – but Rosemary Jorna has some yet smaller ones on the trunks of the maple trees in her Kemp Lake area garden.  75 of them today, and 85 yesterday.  The ones below were photographed today.  They are Nearctula sp., truly tiny snalis from the Family Vertiginidae.

 


Nearctula sp. (Pul.: Vertiginidae)   Rosemary Jorna

 


Nearctula sp. (Pul.: Vertiginidae)   Rosemary Jorna