2024 August 8

Ian obtained these six photographs below on August 6 near the 9 km marker in View Royal.

Harvestman (Opiliones)   Ian Cooper

Cybaeus signifer (Ara.: Cybaeidae)   Ian Cooper

Folding-door spider – Antrodiaetus pacificus (Ara. – Myg.:  Antrodiaetidae)  Ian Cooper

Running crab spider: Philodromus dispar (Ara.: Philodromidae)   Ian Cooper

Pterostichus sp. (Col.: Carabidae)   Ian Cooper

Raspberry Weevil – Otiorhynchus singularis (Col.: Curculionidae)   Ian Cooper

Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed the beetle below in Outerbridge Park and the bee along Munn Road recently.

Golden Jewel Beetle Buprestis aurulenta  (Col.: Buprestidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Bombus vancouverensis  (Hym.:  Apidae)   Marie O’Shaughnessy
Steven Roias writes: It’s Bombus vancouverensis. They seem to be outnumbering vosnesenskii this year, or at least at many locales.