2024 November 27

   More invertebrates from Ian Cooper’s November 26 photo shoot in *Colquitz River Park in Saanich and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

Large Yellow Underwing moth  Noctua pronuba  (Lep.: Noctuidae) Ian Cooper

# Probably Beaded Lancetooth  Ancotrema sportella (Pul.: Haplotrematidae)   Ian Cooper

# Northwest Hesperian  Vespericola columbianus (Pul.: Polygyridae)   Ian Cooper

# Chocolate Arion  Arion rufus (Pul.: Arionidae)   Ian Cooper

* Cybaeus (probably reticulatus or eutypus (Ara.: Cybaeidae)   Ian Cooper
Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for help with the identification of this one

* Unidentified female linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)   Ian Cooper

2024 November 26

No Invertebrate Alert was issued on November 25.

Michele Hannem sends a photograph of one of three Cabbage White chrysalides that she found on the walls of her house in Metchosin.

Cabbage White  Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)   Michele Hannem

Ian Cooper writes:  I had a good photo shoot at Colquitz River Park in Saanich and the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal overnight.

.  We start with Ian’s photograph of an unusual (but apparently not uncommon) introduced Caucasian slug, known as the Worm Slug, which spends much of its time unseen burrowing underground.

Worm Slug  Boettgerilla pallens (Pul.: Boettgerillidae) Ian Cooper

Lauria cylindracea  (Pul.:  Lauriidae)   Ian Cooper

More tomorrow…

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.

2024 November 23

   Now that summer is over and we have probably seen our last butterfly of the year, things are getting a little sluggish.  Ian Cooper photographed eight species on a single outing – his November 21-22 photo shoot at *Colquitz River Park in Saanich and the *Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

# Grey Field Slug  Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)  Ian Cooper

# Dusky Arion  Arion subfuscus (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

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

 # Yellow-Bordered Taildropper  Prophysaon foliolatum (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

* Garden Slug  Arion hortensis (Pul.: Arionidae)  Ian Cooper

* Three-band Garden Slug  Ambigolimax valentianus (Pul.: Limacidae)  Ian Cooper

* Longneck fieldslug  Deroceras invadens –  (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)   Ian Cooper

# Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae)   Ian Cooper

2024 November 22

   No Invertebrate Alerts were issued on November 20 and 21.

Jeremy Tatum writes that, this morning, there were nearly 40 Winter Moths outside the back door of his Saanich apartment building.

Ann Tiplady sends a photograph of a Polyphemus Moth cocoon found under a cherry tree in leaf litter.

Cocoon of Polyphemus Moth Antheraea polyphemus (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Ann Tiplady

Ian Cooper writes:    I went for a productive photo shoot at Colquitz River Park in Saanich and the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal late last night, before and after midnight. The weather forecast called for ‘Rain overnight’ but I was out for four hours and didn’t get rained on at all the whole time – not even spitting drizzle on my way back.

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

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

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

Common Chrysalis Snail  Lauria cylindracea – (Pul.: Lauriidae)  Ian Cooper

Common Chrysalis Snails  Lauria cylindracea – (Pul.: Lauriidae)  Ian Cooper

Unidentified spider.  Possibly Araneidae?     Ian Cooper