2021 October 9 morning

    Jeff Gaskin reports a Painted Lady on the summit of Christmas Hill, 3:45 pm, October 9.  If we get some sun, it might be worth going up there – especially in the late afternoon – just on the off-chance that it might be an American Lady.

   Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a Yellow Woolly Bear from the Lochside Trail north of Blenkinsop Lake, October 8.  (woolly = British spelling,  wooly  = American;  here we takes our choice.)

Yellow Woolly Bear Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Aziza Cooper

   And Ian Cooper sends another woolly bear from the same trail, October 6:

 

Banded Woolly Bear Pyrrharctia isabella (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Ian Cooper

    

    Three spiders and two bugs from Ian.   Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for the spider identifications.  Robb writes:

 A is a female Agelenopsis grass funnel-web spider. Most likely A. potteri or A. utahana although there are other species in our neighbourhood.

B is an Antrodiaetus in her burrow. Local coastal species is A. pacificus.

C is a male Eratigena duellica

 

Grass funnel-web spider Agelenopsis potteri/utahana (Ara.: Agelenidae – Ageleninae)

Ian Cooper

Antrodiaetus pacificus (Ara.– Myg.: Androdiaetidae) Ian Cooper

Eratigena duellica (Ara.: Agelenidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Red-cross Shield Bug Elasmostethus cruciatus (Hem.: Acanthosomatidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Rhododendron Leafhopper Graphocephala fennahi (Hem.: Cicadellidae)

Ian Cooper