2024 November 24

Ian Cooper writes:  Here are six more pictures from my November 21-22 photo shoot in *Colquitz River Park and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

# Cross Orb-weaver  Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae)  Ian Cooper

*A young harvestman  Protolophus sp. (Opiliones: Protolophidae)  Ian Cooper

# Flat-backed Millepede  Scytonotus sp. (Diplopoda:  Polydesmidae)  Ian Cooper

Globular Springtail  Ptenothrix sp. (Coll. –  Symphypleona:  Dicyrtomenidae)  Ian Cooper

* European Sowbug  Oniscus asellus (Isopoda: Oniscidae)  Ian Cooper

Winter Moth  Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Ian Cooper

This moth is freshly emerged from its pupa – its wings as yet not fully expanded.  In a few minutes, it will look perfect.

Talking of winter moths, anyone who has time to go out to the Goldstream Park Nature House  (I don’t think I can make it, writes Jeremy Tatum), to photograph a winter moth there, the chances are better than evens that the moth will be a native Western Winter Moth Operophtera occidentalis rather than the  abundant European O. brumata.  There’s also a good chance there of finding Erannis sp.  And a small, but exciting, chance of finding Operophtera danbyi.