2025 August 1 afternoon
There will probably be more this evening.
Ian Cooper writes: Here are more invertebrate pictures taken during my July 29 2025 photo shoot along the ^E&N trail and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.
Necydalis laevicollis (Col.: Cerambycidae) Ian Cooper
Thanks to Scott Gilmore for species identification of this beetle
^Meadow Spittle Bug Philaenus spumarius (Hem.: Cercopidae)
^Metallic Sweat Bee Lasioglossum (Dialictus) sp.
(Hym.: Halictidae)
Ian Cooper
^Common Greenbottle Lucilia sericata (Dip.: Calliphoridae)
Ian Cooper
#Long-jawed Orb Weaver Metellina sp. (Ara.: Tetragnathidae)
Ian Cooper
#Callobius pictus (Ara.: Amaurobiidae) Ian Cooper
#Cybaeus signifer (Ara.: Cybaeidae)
Jeremy Tatum writes: This moth was at my Saanich apartment this morning. I don’t know of any reliable method of distinguishing between Drepanulatrix monicaria and D. secundaria. The former has a more southerly distribution, and it is possible that many, most, or even all moths hitherto labelled on this site as possibly monicaria, may in fact be secundaria.
Drepanulatrix secundaria/monicaria (Lep.: Geometridae)
Jeremy Tatum
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