{"id":10465,"date":"2020-04-22T15:44:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T22:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10465"},"modified":"2020-04-25T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T18:07:56","slug":"april-22-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10465","title":{"rendered":"April 22"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Mr E sends photographs of some miscellaneous creatures from around Elk Lake.<\/p>\n

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Not identified at press time. Suggestions, anyone?\u00a0 Believed to be an aphidid.\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 For the spider below, Mr E tentatively identified it correctly as Callobius <\/em>sp., so we are glad to have Robb Bennett’s confirmation.\u00a0 Dr Bennett writes:\u00a0 One of our two local common woodland amaurobiids \u2013 Callobius severus<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Very slight possibility it’s Callobius pictus<\/em> but I think severus<\/em> is correct. They are one of several spider species that I commonly find in my firewood pile. \u00a0And their tangly matted webs are often a feature of old Douglas-fir bark.<\/p>\n

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Callobius severus <\/em>(Ara.: Amaurobiidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E also suggested Epuraea<\/em><\/strong> for the beetle below, so we are delighted to have confirmation of this from Scott Gilmore.<\/p>\n

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\nEpuraea <\/em>sp. (Col.: Nitidulidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Not identified at press time. Believed to be a nymph of a bug. Suggestions, anyone?<\/p>\n

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Jochen M\u00f6hr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n

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2 Egira simplex<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Egira rubrica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Eupithecia <\/em><\/strong>sp<\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Eupithecia graefii<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Feralia comstocki<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

4 Hydriomena manzanita\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Melanolophia imitata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Orthosia transparens<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Perizoma curvilinea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Phyllodesma americana <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Tyria jacobaeae <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

5 Venusia obsoleta \/pearsalli<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yesterday, writes Jeremy Tatum, we mentioned the difficulty that we often have in separating Egira crucialis<\/em> from E. simplex<\/em>, and we showed a picture of what I said was an ideal E. crucialis.<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>Today, Jochen provides us with two pictures of what I what describe as truly ideal Egira simplex<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Egira simplex <\/em>(Lep. Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Egira simplex <\/em>(Lep. Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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American Lappet Moth Phyllodesma americana<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Cinnabar Moth Tyria jacobaeae <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2020 April 22 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Mr E sends photographs of some miscellaneous creatures from around Elk Lake.   Not identified at press time. Suggestions, anyone?\u00a0 Believed to be an aphidid.\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E \u00a0\u00a0 For the spider below, Mr E tentatively identified it correctly as Callobius sp., so we are glad to have Robb Bennett’s confirmation.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10497,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions\/10497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}