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 17

2024 November 17


   Here are four pictures from Ian Cooper’s November 17 overnight photo shoot at View Royal, plus  a spider picture taken on November 14

Male linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)  Ian Cooper

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

Yellow-Bordered Taildropper  Prophysaon foliolatum (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Robust Lancetooth Snail  Haplotrema vancouverense (Pul.: Haplotrematidae.)
Ian Cooper

Garlic Snail  Oxychilus alliarius   (Pul.:  Oxychilidae)  Ian Cooper