2025 August 21 evening
Here are two creatures photographed by Ian Cooper along the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal before dawn on August 16.
Male Folding-door Spider Antrodiaetus pacificus
(Ara. – Myg.: Antrodiaetidae)
Ian Cooper
Leopard slug Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae) Ian Cooper
Jeremy Tatum writes: The two best-known lepismatids are the Silverfish Lepisma saccharina, which likes cold buildings, and the Firebrat Thermobia domestica, which likes warm buildings. A third species, Ctenolepisma longicaudata,likes my Saanich apartment building. It is known as the Grey Silverfish. I get both T. domestica and C. longicaudata in my building, but I have never yet seen L. saccharina, the original genuine Silverfish, in Victoria.
Grey Silverfish Ctenolepisma longicaudata (Zyg.: Lepismatidae) Jeremy Tatum
Ian also sent the photograph below of a Thread-legged Bug. These bugs belong to the Subfamily Emesinae of the Family Reduviidae (Assassin Bugs).
Empicoris vagabundus (Hem.: Reduviidae – Emesinae) Ian Cooper
Janet Renouf sent in a photograph of a long-horned beetle from Ten Mile Point. We thank Scott Gilmore for identifying it as a species of Strophiona. It has recently been found that two species of this genus occur here, so, until more is known, I am leaving this one as “Strophiona sp.”
Strophiona sp. (Col.: Cerambycidae) Janet Renouf
Val George writes: On August 17, this moth, Autographa corusca, was on one of the windows of the Nature House at Swan Lake. Also at Swan Lake was a Mourning Cloak butterfly.
Autographa corusca (Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae) Val George
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