If known, describe how adventive species came to be in this location
Observation | Accidental adventive |
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shipment | |
Spider and egg sac were in produce from store | |
Photos / SoundsWhatBrown Spitting Spider (Scytodes fusca)ObserverjefDescriptionFound indoors, in building full of tropical plantings |
Possibly transported from Florida on plants for the zoo |
Likely stowaway in produce from California | |
Observer had driven from California | |
May have come on truck from Texas | |
Found near plant science research greenhouses - likely hitchhiker on plants or planting material | |
Hitched a ride during travels | |
by car | |
Photos / SoundsWhatFeather-legged Spiders (Genus Uloborus)Observeremily-frank-naturalistDescriptioni believe this is a feather legged spider, i do not know the exact species. I am aware these are nonnative to the okanagan,, however they seem to be common at my workplace, a plant nursery. They must be coming in on shipments of plants |
plant nursery shipment |
Part of a tropical plant/nature exhibit | |
outside a community garden | |
WhatEntelegyne Spiders (Infraorder Entelegynae)ObservermarkalebDescriptionFound in with a bag of crickets I'd bought from one of the local pet shops. Not sure if it snuck in with the crickets at the pet shop, or if it was shipped with the crickets from the supplier. |
Cricket Shipment |
WhatGray Wall Jumping Spider (Menemerus bivittatus)Observernaomicappuccino1Descriptioncame in with the groceries |
was in groceries |
drove to OK from Athens, GA | |
Unknown; observer was in California several months prior. | |
unknown | |
Photos / SoundsWhatNoble False Widow (Steatoda nobilis)ObserveralexhettenaDescriptionIn my apt on my ceiling |
Observer had driven from CA to TX earlier in the month |
It was found in a shipment of mangos | |
Came probably from a boat | |
Photos / SoundsWhatNoble False Widow (Steatoda nobilis)ObserverjayispaintingDescriptionFound alive in some cauliflower which has been in the fridge for weeks. |
transported in cauliflower from California |