2020 October 4 morning

 

   A spider photographed by Ian Cooper, and identified by Dr Robb Bennett as an immature male Clubiona sp.:

 

Clubiona sp. (Ara.: Clubionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

   Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin that he photographed a ” funny creature, which looks like a caddis fly larva – but on dry land at 180m above sea level??? “.   Yes, indeed, writes Jeremy Tatum, it does indeed look very like a caddisfly larva, and I was equally puzzled  myself when I first saw one like this.  We’d need to see the adult insect to be certain of the identification, but I believe it is the tineid moth Phereoeca uterella:

 

Probably Phereoeca uterella (Lep.: Tineidae)  Jochen Möhr