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.

May 31

2021 May 31

 

   Rosemary Jorna sends photographs of a miscellany of creatures from the Kemp Lake area.

Dr Robb Bennett identifies the spider as an immature male of the Subfamily Linyphiinae.

 

Immature male linyphiine spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae – Linyphiinae)  Rosemary Jorna

Immature male linyphiine spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae – Linyphiinae)  Rosemary Jorna

Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Millepede (Diplopoda – probably Julidae)  Rosemary Jorna

   [Jeremy Tatum writes:  I still haven’t quite made up my mind which spelling to use on this site.   “Millipede” is more usual, and “millepede” looks unfamiliar – though it is probably more “correct”.  It makes sense to use “mille” for a thousand, and “milli” for a thousandth part, as in millimetre.]

 

Gordon Hart writes from his Highlands home:  On Saturday May 29, I saw seven species of butterfly here at home, including two new ones for me for the year, Grey Hairstreak and Cedar Hairstreak.  Pale Tiger Swallowtails are plentiful right now, with the occasional Western Tiger Swallowtail.  I have attached three pictures.

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Gordon Hart

Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Gordon Hart


Eristalis sp. (possibly horticola) (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Gordon Hart