2020 October 18

 

   Ron Flower photographed this snail at Cowichan Lake a couple of weeks ago while gathering Chanterelle mushrooms.  Robert Forsyth tells us that the snail is Vespericola columbianus, and Bill Savale tells us that the mushroom is Cantharellus cibarius.

 

 Vespericola columbianus (Pul.: Polygyridae)  Ron Flower

    Here follow some recent photographs by Ian Cooper from Colquitz Creek Park.  The first is the same species as the probable limoniine shown in yesterday’s posting:

 

Unidentified (Dip.:  Limoniinae?)   Ian Cooper

Drumming Katydid Meconema thalassina (Orth.: Tettigoniidae)  Ian Cooper

Porcellio scaber (Isopoda:  Porcellionidae)  Ian Cooper

 Ambigolimax valentianus (Pul.: Limacidae) Ian Cooper

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning (no pics taken):

 

1 Agrochola purpurea

1 Drepanulatrix sp.

1 Epirrita autumnata 

5 Orthosia mys

1 Platyptilia carduidactylus

1 Sunira decipiens

1 Tetracis sp.