2022 November 20

This blog provides an informal forum for terrestrial invertebrate watchers to post recent sightings of interesting observations in the southern Vancouver Island region. Please send your sightings by email to Jeremy Tatum (tatumjb352@gmail.com). Be sure to include your name, phone number, the species name (common or scientific) of the invertebrate you saw, location, date, and number of individuals. If you have a photograph you are willing to share, please send it along. Click on the title above for an index of past sightings.The index is updated most days.

2022 November 20

Ian Cooper writes: Here are a few more photographs from November 19. The first is from Colquitz River Park in Saanich. The other three are from the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal. All pictures are of spiders because the cold seems to have shut down everything else.

Linyphiid spider, possibly Neriene sp. (Ara.: Linyphiidae) Ian Cooper

The next one is a smallish spider, about 1cm. Is it an unidentified linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae), or a juvenile Pimoa altioculata (Ara: Pimoidae) ? I’m leaning towards the latter. [Jeremy Tatum writes: So am I – just.]

Maybe Pimoa altioculata (Ara.: Pimoidae) Ian Cooper

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