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 November 16

2024 November 16

   More invertebrate photographs by Ian Cooper from View Royal:

Harvestman  Leptobunus parvulus (Opiliones: Phalangiidae)   Ian Cooper

Female European Earwig  Forficula auricularia  (Derm.: Forficulidae)  Ian Cooper

Probably Fungus Gnat,  (possibly Dynatosoma sp.) (Dip.: Mycetophilidae)  Ian Cooper

Globular springtail, Ptenothrix sp. (Collembola – Symphypleona – Dicyrtomenidae)
Ian Cooper

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Ian Cooper

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Ian Cooper