2020 November 9 evening

 

   Jochen Möhr sends photographs of a grasshopper and a dragonfly from Metchosin, November 7.   Claudia Copley identifies the grasshopper as Melanoplus sp.   This is a large genus of very similar grasshoppers, which generally need close examination of a specimen, with a lens or microscope, for species identification.

 

Melanoplus sp. (Orth.: Acrididae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Dr Rob Cannings identifies the dragonfly as a late female Yellow-legged Meadowhawk.

He writes:  This species, along with Aeshna umbrosa and A. palmata, is usually the last to disappear in the fall. The latest BC S. vicinum record is about now (second week of Nov).

 

Female Yellow-legged Meadowhawk Sympetrum vicinum (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Ian Cooper sends photographs of two arionid slugs, which probably cannot be accurately identified to species without dissection.  The first may be part of the Arion “hortensis”  complex, and the second may be part of the A. “subfuscus” complex.

 

Maybe Arion “hortensis” (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Maybe Arion “subfuscus” (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

More tomorrow…