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

2024 November 1 evening

Jeremy Tatum shows a photograph of a Juniper Carpet moth from his Saanich apartment building this morning.

Juniper Carpet Thera juniperata  Jeremy Tatum

Here is a close-up of the face of the caterpillar of Noctua comes.  Compare with that of N. pronuba shown on October 23 evening, and reproduced again here.

Lesser Yellow Underwing  Noctua comes (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

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

2024 November 1 morning

Ian Cooper writes:  Here are six more pre-dawn pictures taken on October 31  at *Colquitz River Park and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

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

Yellow-bordered Taildropper Prophysaon foliolatum (Pul.: Anadeniidae)  Ian Cooper

*Arion hortensis (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

#Orb weaver, Metellina sp. (possibly M. curtisi) (Ara.: Tetragnathidae)  Ian Cooper

*Harvestmen – Oligolophus tridens  (Opiliones: Phalangiidae)  Ian Cooper

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

   Compare the shape of the cerci with those of the male shown on October 25 morning