2025 June 19
Ian Cooper writes: Here is another selection of fascinating creatures observed during my very productive June 15 photoshoot along the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal, near Talcott Road.
Armadillidium vulgare (Isopoda: Armidillidiidae) Ian Cooper
Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae) Ian Cooper
Protolophus niger (Opiliones: Protolophidae) Ian Cooper
Camponotus vicinus (Hym.: Formicidae) Ian Cooper
Hedya nubiferana (Lep.: Tortricidae) Ian Cooper
Pactopus hornii (Col.: Throscidae) Ian Cooper
Thanks to Scott Gilmore for the identification
Marie O’Shaughnessy has been seeing a lot of dragonfly larval exuviae recently, so she is now photographing some of them in the hopes that someone might be able to identify them from photographs. Dr Rob Cannings is bravely attempting to do just that. Here is one that Marie photographed on June 13 at Outerbridge Park. Dr Cannings writes: This one is almost certainly a Rhionaeschna. My guess would be R. multicolor, but I can’t be sure.
Rhionaeschna sp. exuvia (Odo.: Aeshnidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy
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