2025 July 15
From Jeremy Tatum’s Saanich apartment this morning. A relative of the Silverfish and the Firebrat.
Ctenolepisma longicaudata (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae)
Jeremy Tatum
Sher Falls found this insect in her yard today. Doesn’t it look like an ichneumonid? But, if you saw it live, you’d see that its antennae were not moving rapidly to and fro all the time like an ichneumonid’s does. And if you look more closely, you would see what look like a pair of very short beetle-like elytra – which is why I (Jeremy Tatum) sent it to Scott Gilmore for identification. Scott identified it as labelled beneath the photograph.
Necydalis laevicollis (Col.: Cerambycidae) Sher Falls
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