2023 March 15

    Butterfly!   Ron Flower reports a Mourning Cloak along the Pike Lake power line today.  This is the second butterfly of the year reported to Invert Alert.  The first was on February 21 – also a Mourning Cloak.

Here are an earthworm and a snout mite photographed yesterday by Ian Cooper:

Common Earthworm  Lumbricus terrestris (Hap.: Lumbricidae)  Ian Cooper

Snout mite  (Acari: Bdellidae)  Ian Cooper

   And another collection of invertebrates photographed last night by Ian Cooper in *Colquitz
River Park or along the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

 

#Snout mite  (Acari: Bdellidae)  Ian Cooper

#Snout mite  (Acari: Bdellidae) with prey.  Ian Cooper

*Common RoughWoodlouse – Porcellio scaber (Isopoda: Porcellionidae)

  Ian Cooper

*Male (left) and female (right) linyphiid spiders  (Ara.; Linyphiidae)

  Ian Cooper

 

*Springtail Orchesella cincta (Coll.: Orchesellidae)    Ian Cooper

 

 

#Globose springtail, possibly Ptenothrix sp. (Coll.: Dicyrtomidae)    Ian Cooper

Soil Centipede – Order Geophilomorpha    Ian Cooper

 

Barklouse  Ectopsocus californicus (Psocodea:  Ectopsocidae)

  Ian Cooper