2022 May 2 afternoon

    Mr E sends photographs of a beetle and a spider, and also a miscellany of tiny creatures, some of which are a challenge to identify.

Scott Gilmore kindly identified the beetle as Syneta albida within seconds of my sending him the image.

Female Western Fruit Beetle Syneta albida (Col.: Chrysomelidae)  Mr E

   Scott writes:  It is occasionally this pale but is often a little darker. There are other species in the genus which look very similar but show more colour variation.

 

Dr Robb Bennett writes about the spider below:  It’s a female philodromid crab spider. Probably in the genus Philodromus (less likely Rhysodromus) and I’ll stick my neck out and guess that it is Philodromus dispar (in British Columbia, a common introduced species with distinctive, easily identified males and somewhat cryptic females.).

 

Philodromus (probably dispar)  (Ara.: Philodromidae)   Mr E

 

Jeremy Tatum writes:  I have labelled the following miscellany of tiny creatures with my best wild guesses of what they might be.  If any viewer can help with these, please let us know.

 

Possibly a thrips     Mr E

Probably a springtail   Mr E

Just possibly a larval case of a coleophorid moth    Mr E