2024 November 7

Painted Lady !!!   Jeff Gaskin writes:       Today, November 7th, I actually saw the Painted Lady which has been on Christmas Hill for the past month.  I’ve only seen Painted Ladies in November now  just twice, and the only other time  was close to 30 years ago, November 2nd.  The Lady appeared at 1:10 p.m. when the sun came out and was still there when I left around 1:20 p.m.

  Here are some November 7 photographs by Ian Cooper at Colquitz River Park:

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

Camel cricket Pristoceuthophilus celatus (Orth.: Rhaphidophoridae)  Ian Cooper

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

Privet Leafhopper, Fieberiella florii  (Hem.: Cicadellidae)  Ian Cooper

Dr Robb Bennett writes of the spider below:  :It is an erigonine linyphiid. A mature male. But I don’t think it is an Erigone species. So, best I can do is subfamily Erigoninae.”

Small spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae- Erigoniinae)  Ian Cooper

Crab Spider Xysticus (probably X. cristatus)  (Ara.: Thomisidae)  Ian Cooper

Unidentified Nematoceran fly (Dip.: Nematocera

2024 November 6

   We have here tworecent spider photographs from Ian Cooper.  We are grateful to Dr Robb Bennett for help with the identifications.  The first is a linyphiid – a large and difficult group which, for the time being, we leave at the Family level:

Linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)  Ian Cooper

Dr Bennett writes of the next one:  I’m not sure but I THINK your spider is a philodromid crab spider. One of the darker Philodromus/Rhysodromus species

Probably running crab spider Philodromus or Rhysodromus (Ara.: Philodromidae)  Ian Cooper

Also note that a bug shown on October 30 morning (q.v.), tentatively suggested to be a nabid, has now been identified by Charlene Wood as belonging to the mirid tribe Dicyphini.

2024 November 5

   This American Tissue Moth flew into Jeremy Tatum’s Saanich apartment this morning.

Triphosa haesitata  (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum

Some pictures from an overnight photo shoot by Ian Cooper in View Royal:

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

Snakefly  larva   (Raphidioptera)   Ian Cooper

Scoliocentra flavotestacea (Dip.: Heleomyzidae)   Ian Cooper

Leptobunus parvulus (Opiliones: Phalangiidae)   Ian Cooper

Unidentified linyphiid spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)   Ian Cooper

Long-jawed Orb Weaver, Metellina (possibly curtisi) (Ara.: Tetragnathidae)   Ian Cooper

2024 November 4

   Vicki Baines photographed this moth this morning, at the front door of The Heights on Carey Road.

Sabulodes aegrotata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Vicki Baines

Ian Cooper sends additional pictures from November 2 overnight photo shoot at Colquitz River Park in Saanich.

Camel cricket  Pristoceuthophilus celatus (Orth.: Rhaphidophoridae)  Ian Coope

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

2024 November 3

Ian Cooper writes: Here are six pictures taken overnight during a very rainy predawn photo shoot on November 2 at *Colquitz River Park in Saanich and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

*Orb weaver Zygiella sp. probably Zygiella x-notata (Ara.:  Araneidae)   Ian Cooper

*Running crab spider: (Ara.: Philodromidae)   Ian Cooper

*Harvestman, Phalangium opilio (Opi.: Phalangiidae)   Ian Cooper

*Common Chrysalis Snail – Lauria cylindracea – (Pul.: Lauriidae)   Ian Cooper
Ian writes:  I saw dozens of these in multiple clusters on rocks by the side of the trail.

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

Unidentified nematoceran fly  (Dip.: Nematocera.  Probably Tipulidae or Trichoceridae)
Ian Cooper