INVERTEBRATE ALERT
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.

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   Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a beetle from Sooke Potholes, October 30.  She writes: It held still long enough for a photo.  I saw another two days ago in Eaglecrest Park in Otter Point, but it just moved too fast.  Scott Gilmore writes:  It is a carabid beetle, Scaphinotus angusticollis.  Eater of snail and slugs!  Given its food source, I am not sure why they are so fast.

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Scaphinotus angusticollis (Col.: Carabidae)  Rosemary Jorna

  Jeremy Tatum writes:  It’s time for Winter Moths again!  Here is one of two from my Saanich apartment this morning (November 1) – the first I’ve seen this season.

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 Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum