2021 January 12

 

   Erratum:  A slug tentatively identified in yesterday’s posting as Prophysaon coeruleum is actually P. foliolatum.  See yesterday’s posting for details.

 

    Ian Cooper sends a photograph of a tiny spider of the sort that I (writes Jeremy Tatum) used to call a “money spider”.  I sent the photo to Dr Robb Bennett somewhat apologetically, referring to it as “just another linyphiid spider”, and was mildly chided for the word “just” – for Robb says they are very interesting!  But he also says there are literally hundreds of species in British Columbia and they usually can’t be confidently identified from a photograph.  So we’ll settle for Linyphiidae – subfamily either Linyphiinae or Erigoninae.  In any case, we can all enjoy the photograph.

 

Linyphiid spider       Ian Cooper