2024 April 3

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.

2024 April 3

Ian Cooper sends photographs of a variety of insects. We don’t attempt to identify them to species, since they would all require specialist knowledge, but we are grateful to Dr Rob Cannings who has identified the flies to Family level. If any viewer can go further with the identification of these insects, please let us know.

Diptera – Sciaridae Ian Cooper

Diptera – probably Heleomyzidae Ian Cooper

The next is a crane fly, but not the common and familiar Tipula paludosa.

Diptera – Tipulidae Ian Cooper

The next is a hymenopterous insect (wasp) scavenging on the flesh of a dead mouse. It would be most interesting to know what it is, even just to Family level. We hope that some viewer might be able to help us.

Hymenoptera Ian Cooper

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