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.

2022 July 30

2022 July 30

    Jeremy Tatum writes:  There have been no moths at the rear door of my Saanich apartment building for weeks, but the dearth of moths was broken this morning with great excitement by the appearance of no less than a Brown House Moth, whose chief point of interest is perhaps the length of its scientific name.

Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Lep.: Oecophoridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Carl Hughes sends a photograph of a pair of Leopard Slugs (also called Great Grey Slugs) in cop.   They hang from a slimy rope and twist themselves around each other.

 

Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae)  Carl Hughes