2024 January 17

Here are some pictures from Ian Cooper’s January 17 predawn photo shoot in View Royal.

 Fungus Gnat (Dip.: Mycetophilidae)  Ian Cooper

   Those brown things on the underside of the fern leaf are known technically, I believe (writes Jeremy Tatum) as sori.  Just as we can identify the fly from the patterns of the venation on the wings of the fly, and the tarsal spines, so, in like mien, any botanists watching this will doubtless be able to identify the fern  from the sori.

 Female Pimoa altioculata (Ara.: Pimoidae)   Ian Cooper

Unidentified linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)   Ian Cooper

Snout mite (Acari:  Bdellidae)   Ian Cooper

Pseudoscorpion  (Pseudoscorpiones)   Ian Cooper