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 October 15

2024 October 15

The attached photographs were taken by Ian Cooper on Monday night, October 14, by the 9 km marker in View Royal.

Forest Spider  Pimoa altioculata (Ara: Pimoidae)   Ian Cooper

Cybaeus signifer (Ara.: Cybaeidae)   Ian Cooper

 

Flat-backed Millepede –Scytonotus sp. (Diplopoda:  Polydesmidae)   Ian Cooper

 

 Camel cricket  Pristoceuthophilus celatus (Orth.: Rhaphidophoridae)   Ian Cooper