2024 December 10
No Invertebrate Alerts were issued on December 8 and 9.
We may soon be getting a bit late for finding and photographing a native Western Winter Moth at the Goldstrean Nature House.
Here are some photographs obtained by Ian Cooper before dawn on the morning of December 9, at *Colquitz River Park in Saanich and by the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.
* Cybaeus sp. (Possibly C. reticulatus ) (Ara.: Cybaeidae) Ian Cooper
#Forest Spider Pimoa altioculata (Ara: Pimoidae)...
2024 December 7
No Invertebrate Alerts have been issued since December 1.
Aziza Cooper reports several Winter Moths from her house in Saanich. We show one of them here. These moths are abundant and ubiquitous at present and are nearly all European Winter Moths Operophtera brumata. We encourge photographers to visit the Nature House at Goldstream Park and photograph Winter Moths there. There is a very good chance there that you will photograph the native Western Winter Moth Operophtera occi...