2024 November 3

Ian Cooper writes: Here are six pictures taken overnight during a very rainy predawn photo shoot on November 2 at *Colquitz River Park in Saanich and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

*Orb weaver Zygiella sp. probably Zygiella x-notata (Ara.:  Araneidae)   Ian Cooper

*Running crab spider: (Ara.: Philodromidae)   Ian Cooper

*Harvestman, Phalangium opilio (Opi.: Phalangiidae)   Ian Cooper

*Common Chrysalis Snail – Lauria cylindracea – (Pul.: Lauriidae)   Ian Cooper
Ian writes:  I saw dozens of these in multiple clusters on rocks by the side of the trail.

*Dark-bodied Glass Snail Oxychilus draparnaudi (Pul.: Daubebariidae)   Ian Cooper

Unidentified nematoceran fly  (Dip.: Nematocera.  Probably Tipulidae or Trichoceridae)
Ian Cooper