On underside of rocks in shallow stream with moderate flow rate. Palm of propodus of first pereopod clearly with large triangular process, ruling out C. occidentalis. Not certain if C. communis or C. racovitzai. Could not see mesial process on second (right) pleopod, but caudal process also not particularly pronounced, so perhaps immature? Also photo of first pleopod
An odd oak. I'm unsure if this is just a mutation on a garry oak, or if this is something else entirely. Found in the Summit Park garry oak meadow.
i’m not sure what this is but it moved the back of its body like a grub and it had the head of an ant or something
Fungal infection or insect damage on a rose, white fuzzy spots on stems, thorns, and galls.
Green stain on oak leaf, visible under UV 365nm light.
On the currently unidentified oak.
Host obs: https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/238542282
Unhorned variant.
Excuse the red on my hands. It isn't blood, we were just harvesting thimbleberries lmao
On the currently unidentified oak.
Host obs: https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/99736291
This is a male Folding-door spider, Antrodiaetus pacificus, spotted wandering on an embankment by the Galloping Goose Trail near the 9 km marker. Normally these ambush predators remain at their burrow entrance waiting to grab passing prey, but during mating season the males go wandering in search of females. This may be the earliest time of year I've seen one of them out like this. This individual was a great subject, as it stayed put as I took several photos of it. It was on the move when I first noticed it, but basically froze in place soon after my flashlight lit it up.
That last picture is the peach that it is growing on . This is in a greenhouse . It attacks peaches still on the tree as well as on the ground.
Cluster of Emplectonema viride ribbon worms under a rock. Last photo shows a couple of them beside Purple Ribbon Worms
On a plant which I believe is Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera' (Threadleaf falsecypress), but I could be wrong. I’ve collected the shield bug, and have donated it to the RBCM so there is a specimen record of this species’s introduction to Victoria
Based on the thickness i think it's either Allotropa virgata or Pterospora andromedea. Seems too thick to be a coral root.
@liamragan I was in Fernwood this morning and couldn't resist tracking this one down. Good eyes!
ID based on overlap of A. uva ursi and A. columbiana as pictured in last image, intermediate height and form
Wild guess for the ID! Found on some old wood. The slime molds in the two images were right next to one another. I assume they are the same species...
Edit: Added a new shot of the larger group with better lighting, taken the following morning. There was frost overnight, and some of it is still visible in the photo.
A guess based on some previous finds, though I know very little about slime molds! Found on rotting wood.