2024 February 14
Butterfly! Gordon Hart passes on a note from Burl Jantzen that yesterday, February 13, Burl saw a Mourning Cloak near the south end of the Swan Lake boardwalk.
Libby Avis has identified the (hitherto unidentified) moth shown on February 10 (quo vade).
Here is a wide variety of invertebrates photographed by Ian Cooper on February 12 2024 in *Colquitz River Park and by the 9 km marker on the Galloping Goose Trail in #View Royal.
# Snout mite (Acari: Bdellidae) Ian Cooper
*Lauria cylindracea (Pul.: Lauriidae) Ian Cooper
*Deroceras panormitanum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae) Ian Cooper
#Orchesella cincta (Coll.: Orchesellidae) Ian Cooper
#Globular springtail (Collembola – Symphypleona – Dicyrtomenidae) Ian Cooper
#Crane fly larva – a “leatherjacket” – most likely Tipula paludosa (Dip.: Tipulidae) Ian Cooper