2024 July 3 afternoon

   Val George writes:  This rather worn Grey Hairstreak was at the summit of Mount Douglas yesterday afternoon July 2.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  This is the first report in Invert Alert of a Grey Hairstreak this year.  Purplish Copper yet to come.

 Grey Hairstreak  Strymon melinus  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Val George

   Here are some photographs by Ian Cooper:  All pictures from Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal, July 2nd, evening after dusk.

 Enoplognatha ovata (Ara.: Theridiidae)  Ian Cooper

Ian writes:  Enoplognatha ovata are currently abundant, but sightings of the red ‘candy stripe’ variant have been infrequent.

Believed to be Anyphaena aperta (Ara.: Anyphaenidae)  Ian Cooper

   Ian writes:  Took a while to pin down the identification for this one! I knew I’d seen this species before, and that we had published it on Invert a couple of years ago, [2022 October 22 morning] but its name escaped me. It’s reminiscent of a crab spider (no web, just waits to ambush passing prey [but the 2022 photograph appears to show some webbing]) but it isn’t a crab spider. It’s been referred to as a ‘sac’ spider, but I’m not sure if that term is still used.

Brown Lacewing  (Neu.: Hemerobiidae)  Ian Cooper

Crane fly – (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Ian Cooper

Ian writes:  I saw a few of these crane flies actively laying their eggs in various locations by the trail, including in a tree’s moss.

Western Black Carpenter Ant – Camponotus modoc (Hym.: Formicidae)
Ian Cooper