2020 October 3 afternoon

 

   Rosemary Jorna writes:  We hiked through the Sooke hills from Harbourview to the YMCA Camp Thunderbird. We did not see a variety of insects but there were many snail eating Scaphinotus angusticollis on the trail, at least 12 in the last 3 kilometres.   Over the last couple of weeks, I seem to see one or two every time I am out but they move too fast to photograph. Today was different –  several posed for the camera but as they all look the same I am only sending a shot of one eating the remains of a banana slug.

 

Snail-eating beetle Scaphinotus angusticollis (Col.: Carabidae) Rosemary Jorna

 

      Here are two slugs photographed by Ian Cooper:

 

 

Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper