2020 October 5 morning

 

   Here’s a rather fierce-looking spider photographed by Ian Cooper along the Galloping Goose trail, and kindly identified for us by Dr Robb Bennett as a  mature male Callobius pictus.

 

Callobius pictus (Ara.: Amaurobiidae)  Ian Cooper

 

   And a beetle, kindly identified for us by Scott Gilmore:

 

Helops pernitens (Col.: Tenebrionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

   Jochen Möhr’s short list of moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Drepanulatrix sp.

1 Orthosia mys

 

Orthosia mys (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr