2024 May 15

   Jeremy Tatum reports two Painted Ladies on the top of Mount Douglas, and one Western Tiger Swallowtail on the top of Mount Tolmie this afternoon.  He writes that he is still not seeing a lot of butterflies.  “I have still not yet seen a comma this year.”

More middle-of-the-night invertebrates from Ian Cooper.  Dr Bennett writes of the spider in the first photograph below:  That’s a male philodromid crab spider. Probably Philodromus rufus but I will be conservative and stick with Philodromus sp.

Male Philodromus sp. (maybe rufus)  (Ara.: Philodromidae)  Ian Cooper

Ian writes of the next one:  Unidentified spider who resides in a hole in the bark of a conifer by the GG trail (possibly Cybaeus sp. (Ara.: Cybaeidae), or Callobius sp. (Ara.: Amaurobiidae) with a captured Theridiidae sp. (cobweb weaver).

See note above.    Ian Cooper

Unidentified ant  (Hym.: Formicidae)  Ian Cooper

Unidentified aphid (Hem.: Aphididae)  Ian Cooper

Dicyphus discrepans (Hem.: Miridae)  Ian Cooper

Protolophus sp. (Opiliones: Protolophidae)   Ian Cooper