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Hayne’s Lease Araneae (Spiders) (2)

8AprilGarry Fletcher100, Reports, Species List

Hayne’s Lease Araneae: ( Spiders) Spencer Entomological Museum, UBC, Determined by C.Dondale and J. Redner haynes_lease_araneae_in_spencer_entomological_museum

The Osoyos Arid Biotic Area

8AprilGarry Fletcher100, Reports, Species ListAmbystoma tigrinum slater, Antelope Brush, Antrozous pallididus cantwelli, bitterroot, Canyon wren, Eumeces skiltonianus, Great-basin spadefoot toad, Lewisia rediviva, myotis leibii melananorhinus, Opuntia fragilis, Pallid bat, Purshia tridentata, Scaphiopus intermontanus, short-horned lizard, small footed bat, Tiger salamander, western skink

G.G.E. Scudder of the Dept of Zoology, UBC The Osoyoos-arid Biotic Area has a distinctive faunal assemblege found nowhere else in Canada. Some of the species are found nowhere else in British Columbia. While they may not all be endangered, that they occur to the south, the populations in BC are peripheral ones. See the

Grassland Classification in BC and site proposals for Arthropod Research

8AprilGarry Fletcher100, Reports, Research, Species Listgrassland, robber fly

Sites in each of Lower middle and Upper Grasslands have been chosen . Present work by Rob Cannings stresses the differences in robber fly ( Diptera: Asilidae) communities in these grassland types: See the pdf : grassland_class_in_bc_and_site_prop_for_arthropod_research