2024 November 6

   We have here tworecent spider photographs from Ian Cooper.  We are grateful to Dr Robb Bennett for help with the identifications.  The first is a linyphiid – a large and difficult group which, for the time being, we leave at the Family level:

Linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)  Ian Cooper

Dr Bennett writes of the next one:  I’m not sure but I THINK your spider is a philodromid crab spider. One of the darker Philodromus/Rhysodromus species

Probably running crab spider Philodromus or Rhysodromus (Ara.: Philodromidae)  Ian Cooper

Also note that a bug shown on October 30 morning (q.v.), tentatively suggested to be a nabid, has now been identified by Charlene Wood as belonging to the mirid tribe Dicyphini.

2024 November 5

   This American Tissue Moth flew into Jeremy Tatum’s Saanich apartment this morning.

Triphosa haesitata  (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum

Some pictures from an overnight photo shoot by Ian Cooper in View Royal:

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

Snakefly  larva   (Raphidioptera)   Ian Cooper

Scoliocentra flavotestacea (Dip.: Heleomyzidae)   Ian Cooper

Leptobunus parvulus (Opiliones: Phalangiidae)   Ian Cooper

Unidentified linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)   Ian Cooper

Long-jawed Orb Weaver, Metellina (possibly curtisi) (Ara.: Tetragnathidae)   Ian Cooper

2024 November 4

   Vicki Baines photographed this moth this morning, at the front door of The Heights on Carey Road.

Sabulodes aegrotata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Vicki Baines

Ian Cooper sends additional pictures from November 2 overnight photo shoot at Colquitz River Park in Saanich.

Camel cricket  Pristoceuthophilus celatus (Orth.: Rhaphidophoridae)  Ian Coope

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

2024 November 3

Ian Cooper writes: Here are six pictures taken overnight during a very rainy predawn photo shoot on November 2 at *Colquitz River Park in Saanich and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

*Orb weaver Zygiella sp. probably Zygiella x-notata (Ara.:  Araneidae)   Ian Cooper

*Running crab spider: (Ara.: Philodromidae)   Ian Cooper

*Harvestman, Phalangium opilio (Opi.: Phalangiidae)   Ian Cooper

*Common Chrysalis Snail – Lauria cylindracea – (Pul.: Lauriidae)   Ian Cooper
Ian writes:  I saw dozens of these in multiple clusters on rocks by the side of the trail.

*Dark-bodied Glass Snail Oxychilus draparnaudi (Pul.: Daubebariidae)   Ian Cooper

Unidentified nematoceran fly  (Dip.: Nematocera.  Probably Tipulidae or Trichoceridae)
Ian Cooper

2024 November 2

   Jeremy Tatum writes that several European Winter Moths were at his Saanich apartment building this morning.  The wing patterns of some Winter Moths are rather bland and featureless (see, for example, October 18); the one below is rather well marked:

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

Here are six more from Ian Cooper, October 31.

The first is a very tiny insect, almost certainly a hymenopterous parasitic wasp, which spends its entire immature stages growing inside the egg of another insect, possibly in company with several brothers and sisters.  This one may be parasitoidal in the eggs of a bug, and is possibly Trissolcus

Possibly Trissolcus sp. (Hym.: Scelionidae – Telenomoninae)  Ian Cooper

Male Linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)   Ian Cooper

Rugathodes sexpunctatus  (Ara.: Theridiidae)  Ian Cooper

Snail-eating Beetle – Scaphinotus angusticollis (Col.: Carabidae)  Ian Cooper

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

Deroceras invadens  (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)  Ian Cooper