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.

2023 April 20

2023 April 20

Although a few butterflies were reported in March, April so far has been a disaster for
butterflies, with only five individual butterflies reported to Invertebrate Alert so far this month.  Today has been cold, wet and windy, with more of the same forecast for the next few days.   During this period of butterfly scarcity, we are indebted to Ian Cooper for giving us some excellent photographs of little-seen invertebrate creatures with which many of us are not at all familiar, if at all.  Here are some of them from last night.   * Colquitz River Park.   #Galloping Goose Trail, View Royal.

 

 

 

 

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   *Springtail Orchesella villosa (Coll.: Orchesellidae)   Ian Cooper

 

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*Springtail Orchesella villosa (Coll.: Orchesellidae)   Ian Cooper

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  • #Flat-backed Millepede – Scytonotus sp.(Diplopoda:  Polydesmidae)
       Ian Cooper 
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*Grey Field Slug – Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)

   Ian Cooper 

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Probably Oligolophus tridens  (Opi.: Phalangiidae – Oligolophinae) 

  Ian Cooper