More strange creatures found by Ian Cooper in Colquitz RiverPark.   Thanks to Dr Frans Janssens of Antwerp  University for identifying the globose springtail, and to Dr Robb Bennett of the Royal British Columbia Museum for identifying the spider.

 

Ptenothrix beta (Collembola – Symphypleona – Dicyrtomenidae)

Ian Cooper

 

Ptenothrix beta (Collembola – Symphypleona – Dicyrtomenidae)

Ian Cooper

 

 

Philodromus dispar (Ara.: Philodromidae)  Ian Cooper

 

   Late dragonflies:  Are there any dragonflies still to be seen?  If you see any, please let us know.  If you can photograph one, or even identify it without a photo, that would be nice, but let us know if you just see one, even without a photo or an ID.

 

 

  We have had just a few sightings of the Winter Moth this fall, although it is still technically autumn, and there are appropriately lots of Autumnal Moth around, as Jochen shows below.

  

   Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin:  This morning, after a week of nothing but one E. autumnata on the wall (one was there for two days), this morning there were four of them.  And as they exhibited quite some variation in their markings, I took a picture of each.  That was not easy, as they were all beyond the reach of a tripod mounted camera.  So I had to do with free-hand photography.

 

Epirrita autumnata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Epirrita autumnata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Epirrita autumnata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Epirrita autumnata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr