2024 May 14

Here are more invertebrates that move around our feet mostly unnoticed, except by Ian Cooper who seeks them out with his camera in the nighttime.

First, a globose springtail.  We thank Dr Frans Janssens for confirming Ian’s suggested identification as Ptenothrix maculosa.

 Ptenothrix maculosa (Coll.:  Dicyrtomidae)  Ian Cooper

   Next, a slug.  Robert Forsyth writes:  Possibly Arion hortensis. But tricky, and confirmation requires a rather difficult (for me) dissection. In the Arion hortensis group of species, A. distinctus seems to be the common one in BC (or at least around Victoria, when I was doing the needed dissections to determine species properly). But true A. hortensis is known in BC.

Arion sp. (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

Enoplognatha ovata (Ara.: Theridiidae)  Ian Cooper

Clubiona sp. (Ara.: Clubionidae)  Ian Cooper

Froghopper (Spittle Bug)  (Hem.: Cercopidae)  Ian Cooper

Culiseta incidens  (Dip.: Culicidae)  Ian Cooper