Life On A Quarter Acre

Bathtub, 7 mm

From a berlese funnel sample taken from soil under raspberries. 13 mm

From berlese funnel taken from soil under raspberries

27 mm, UV trap

Forewing length ~ 40 mm

Malaise trap, 12 mm

Malaise trap, ~1.5 mm

Malaise trap. 4 mm

Malaise trap, 7 mm

Malaise trap, 3 mm

Malaise trap, 26-27 Aug 23. \r\n6 mm

Malaise trap, 26-27 Aug 23, \r\n6 mm

Malaise trap, 5 mm

From malaise trap. Aug 26-27, 2023.\r\n11 mm.

Malaise trap, 5 mm

Malaise trap, 26-27 Aug 23\r\n~ 5 mm

Malaise trap, 26-27 Aug 23\r\n~ 3 mm

Malaise trap, 26-27 Aug 23. \r\n15 mm\r\n\r\nV. germanica?

From Malaise trap set on August 26-27, 2023.\r\n\r\n8 mm

Malaise trap 26-27 Aug 23, \r\n~ 3 mm

From Malaise trap, 26-27 Aug 23.\r\n~ 8 mm

Malaise trap, ~2.5 mm

From Malaise trap set 26-28 June 23. ~ 4 mm

Malaise trap

12 mm

From Malaise trap, 26-27 Aug 2023. ~1.5 mm

25 mm

Collected from a malaise trap that was set from June 8 - 10. ~4 mm

From Malaise trap.\n13 mm

Malaise trap, 8-10 Jun 23\r\n~2.5 mm

Malaise trap, 8-10 Jun 23.\r\n~ 2 mm

Malaise trap, 8-10 Jun 23\n~ 11 mm

Malaise trap\r\n10 mm

Malaise trap, 6 mm

Malaise trap: 8-10 June 23.\r\n~ 6 mm

Malaise trap, 8 June 23\n10 mm

Malaise trap, 8-10 Jun 23, \r\n~ 15 mm

Malaise trap, 3 mm

Malaise trap, 8-10 Jun 23\n~ 9 mm

Malaise trap, ~2.5 mm

Malaise trap, 10 mm

From Malaise Trap set June 8-20, 2023. Length ~ 0.7 mm

Malaise trap, 8-10 Jun 23\r\n~ 5 mm

Malaise trap, 7 mm

Malaise trap, 8-10 Jun 23\n~ 2 mm

IDed by Nathaniel Green

c.f. Banchinae

Malaise Trap

Malaise trap, 6 mm

From Malaise trap, 8-10 June 2023

~ 1 mm

Encyrtidae?

Malaise Trap, 8-10 June 2023 IDed by Nathaniel Green at Barr Museum on 14 June 24 7 mm ...

Malaise trap, 8 Jun 23

IDed by Nathaniel Green at Barr Museum on 14 June 24

Female, 10 mm

From Malaise trap set on June 8-10, 2023.

IDed at Barr Museum by Nathaniel Green on 14 Jun 24

Female, 13 mm

Knocked the head off while trying to get a better photo for Brandon's subfamily classifier.

On raspberry leaf.

On front porch.

On ocean spray bush

Associated Species: Holodiscus discolor (Ocean Spray)

On a snowberry bush.

Found on inside of front door. 3 mm.

Many of these were visiting saskatoon flowers

Swept from grass near snowberry bush. 9 mm

On ground. Length 7 mm.\n

Checking out our newspaper tube.

Checking out an old barbeque for a nest site.

(Ant - not the beetle)

(The beetle - not the ant)\r\n\r\nThe two photos of the mounted specimen is the same individual that was being carried by the ant.

On front porch

On compost bin

On a spruce stump. \r\n\r\n4mm

On a Daffodil flower. 1.0 mm

On a daffodil flower.

~ 10 mm

Under an upside-down bucket in the backyard.

First dandelion flower in the yard this year.

On the front door. Small ~ 5mm

On side of shed

On compost bin

Front porch. ~ 2.5 mm

2.5 mm

Collected from the side of the shed. ~2.5 mm

First one I\'ve seen this year in the yard

4 mm. Front porch

On the inside of the front door.\'=\r\nThe third photo is after mounting. \r\nBody length ~ 6 mm

Front porch 4 deg C.\r\n~2.5 mm

Under a rock. 4 mm.

Under board in yard.

in the water drained from a potted orchid. ~ 0.4 mm

On kitchen window. ~ 7 mm

On concrete wall. \nstalk + capsule ~ 1cm

On concrete wall.\nCapsule ~ 1mm

On front porch, 7 deg C, ~ 2 mm

In bathtub, body length 7 mm

~ 5 cm length

On an old woodpile.\r\nSplash cup diameter ~ 5 mm.

On kitchen counter. 3 mm

Thistle seed feeder

My previous observation was of a sharp-shinned hawk and its prey. \r\nThese are the feathers at the scene.

This hawk was on the ground in our backyard when I startled it. \r\nIt flew to a nearby tree, but then flew off before I could get a better picture. It was carrying some type of prey.