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 30 evening

2024 October 30 evening

More pictures from Ian Cooper’s Oct 28 & 29 photo shoots.

European Sowbug – Oniscus asellus (Isopoda: Oniscidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Common Rough Woodlouse  Porcellio scaber (Isopoda: Porcellionidae)  Ian Cooper
plus unknown fly

  

Globose springtail, Dicyrtomina ornata f. saundersi (Collembola – Symphypleona – Dicyrtomidae)
Ian Cooper

 

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

 

Unidentified male linyphiine spider  (Ara.: Linyphiidae – Linyphiinae)

 

Yellow-bordered Taildropper Prophysaon foliolatum (Pul.: Anadeniidae)