2020 October 12

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

1 Drepanulatrix sp.
1 Agrochola purpurea

1 Lithomoia germana 

1 Sunira decipiens

1 Tetracis sp.

and one rather pretty caddisfly  identified by Libby Avis as Halesochila taylori

Drepanulatrix monicaria/secundaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Caddisfly Halesochila taylori (Tri.: Limnephilidae) Jochen Möhr

2020 October 11

   Bryan Gates sends a photograph of this Western Conifer Seed Bug from Saratoga Beach:

Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hem.: Coreidae)  Bryan Gates

   Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of this moth from Metchosin:

Agrochola purpurea (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

More photographs of diverse animals taken at dusk along the Galloping Goose Trail by Ian Cooper.   First two Common (European) Earwigs – a male (with curved cerci) and a female (with straight cerci).

Male Common Earwig Forficula auricularia (Derm.:  Forficulidae)  Ian Cooper

Female Common Earwig Forficula auricularia (Derm.:  Forficulidae)  Ian Cooper

Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus  (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

Lancetooth Snail (Pul.: Haplotrematidae) Ian Cooper

2020 October 10

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

1 Agrochola purpurea

1 tortricid sp. 

1 Lithomoia germana 

1 Sunira decipiens

Sunira decipiens (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Lithomoia germana (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Jeremy Tatum writes:  I hope many viewers enjoyed Claudia Copley’s great interview about spiders on the radio this morning (CBC:  NXNW).  While spiders are fresh on your mind, here’s one photographed by Ian Cooper.  Thanks to Robb Bennett for confirming the identification as Cybaeus sp.  Dr Bennett writes:  A mature male Cybaeus. Most likely Cybaeus signifer but could also be either C. reticulatus or C. eutypus. Less likely – could be C. morosus.

Cybaeus (probably signifer) (Ara.: Cybaeidae)   Ian Cooper

   …and some more trapdoor spiders:

There it is –

Antrodiaetus pacificus (Ara.-Myg.:  Antrodiaetidae)  Ian Cooper

…and there it isn’t!  —

Antrodiaetus pacificus (Ara.-Myg.:  Antrodiaetidae)  Ian Cooper

Another one:

Antrodiaetus pacificus (Ara.-Myg.:  Antrodiaetidae)  Ian Cooper

   Two slugs;

Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae) Ian Cooper

Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae)  Ian Cooper

2020 October 9

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin yesterday (October 8):

1 Drepanulatrix sp. 

1 Ennomos magnaria

1 Orthosia mys (still the same one)

1 Sunira decipiens

and today (October 9):

1 Agrochola purpurea

1 Dysstroma citrata 

1 Orthosia mys (still the same one)  

1 Plemyria georgii

1 Sunira decipiens

1 Tetracis jubararia

Sunira decipiens (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Plemyria georgii  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Tetracis pallulata/jubararia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Dysstroma citrata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Ian Cooper sends a picture of a woodlouse from the Galloping Goose Trail. 

Probably Oniscus asellus (Isopoda: Oniscidae)  Ian Cooper

2020 October 8 evening

   More spiders from the Galloping Goose Trail, photographed by Ian Cooper and identified by Dr Robb Bennett.  The first is an artistic photograph, but not the easiest to identify!   However, Dr Bennett is happy to go to Family – Linyphiidae – and sex – male.

Male linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)  Ian Cooper

    Dr Bennett writes, of the next two:  The other two are both Eratigena duellica. In the second image, the web is a good clue (large messy funnel) as well as the relatively straight eye rows (strongly curved down at the sides in most of the other funnelweb weavers, e.g. Agelenopsis).

Eratigena duellica (Ara: Agelenidae)  Ian Cooper

Eratigena duellica (Ara: Agelenidae)  Ian Cooper

   Yet more creatures from The Galloping Goose Trail:

Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae) Ian Cooper

Jumping Bristletail  (Microcoryphia – Machilidae)  Ian Cooper

Jumping Bristletail  (Microcoryphia – Machilidae)  Ian Cooper

Lancetooth Snail (Pul.: Haplotremidae)  Ian Cooper