2025 May 1 evening
Here are some photographs taken by Ian Cooper along the Galloping Goose Trail, April 29.
Harvestman – Protolophus sp. (Opiliones: Protolophidae)
Ian Cooper
Barklouse – Psocus sp. (Psoc.: Stenopsocidae) Ian Cooper
Jumping spider – female Metaphidippus manni.. (Ara.: Salticidae) Ian Cooper
Thanks to Thomas Barbin for the identification.
A melyrid beetle, probably Malachius sp. (Col.: Melyridae)
Ian Cooper
Thanks to Scott Gilmore for the identification.
Picture-winged fly Chaetopsis fulvifrons (Dip.: Ulidiidae)
Ian Cooper
Crab spider Xysticus cristatus (Ara.: Thomisidae) Ian Cooper
Val George writes: This afternoon, May 1, I saw my first Red Admiral of the season at the summit of Mount Douglas – seems quite early for this species. The California Tortoiseshells and the Grey Hairstreak were still there, as were two Sara Orangetips.
Female Sara Orangetip Anthocharis sara (Lep.: Pieridae)
Val George
Jeremy Tatum writes: I visited the pond along Munn Road today. There were lots of Western Spring Azures, but no other butterflies. I did, however, see the pretty litle geometrid Leptostales rubromarginaria. I would still like someone to see that moth (and also Epirrhoe plebeculata) ovipositing.
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