2025 January 20
2025 January 20
No Invertebrate Alerts were posted on January 18, 19.
Here are some recent invertebrate photographs by Ian Cooper. All except the first were taken before dawn on January 19, 2025, at *Colquitz River Park and by the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal. The first (Cross Orb-weaver) was taken on January 13.
Cross Orb-weaver Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae) Ian Cooper
* A very tiny, almost invisibly small spider, Rugathodes sexpunctatus (Ara.: Theridiidae)
Ian Cooper
# Female Neriene digna (Ara.: Linyphiidae) Ian Cooper
# Male Neriene digna (Ara.: Linyphiidae) Ian Cooper
#Unidentified first or second instar noctuid caterpillar (Lep.: Noctuidae) Ian Cooper
Unidentified nematoceran fly. Possibly a winter gnat (Dip.: Trichoceridae)
Ian Cooper
* Springtail – Orchesella cincta (Coll.: Orchesellidae) Ian Cooper