{"id":10475,"date":"2020-04-23T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2020-04-24T09:40:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T16:40:04","slug":"april-23-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10475","title":{"rendered":"April 23"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 April 23<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Mr E sends a photograph of a Yellow-bordered TaIldropper Slug <\/strong>from Saanich (rather a large area!) yesterday:<\/p>\n

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Prophysaon foliolatum <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 And a non-biting midge<\/strong>, Family Chironomidae,\u00a0 possibly genus Chironomus<\/em>.\u00a0 Although we cannot be absolutely certain of the genus, we can at least be certain of the sex.\u00a0 The males have large feathery antennae;\u00a0 this one is a female.<\/p>\n

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Non-biting midge (Dip.: Chironomidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Non-biting midge (Dip.: Chironomidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0And a young spiderling.\u00a0 Dr Bennett writes:\u00a0 A juvenile theridiid, a species of broad-sense “Theridion” which includes a number of genera more-or-less recently split off from Theridion<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Spiderling\u00a0 (Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n

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

1 Egira simplex\/crucialis <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Feralia\u00a0comstocki <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

1 Orthosia revicta<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Orthosia praeses <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

4 Venusia obsoleta \/pearsalli\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 On April 21 and 22 we showed clear unambiguous examples from Jochen of Egira crucialis<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>and E. simplex<\/em>.\u00a0 It seemed that the problem was solved.\u00a0 Now Jochen comes up with the moth below.\u00a0 Libby Avis and I are in complete agreement \u2013 we don’t know which of the two it is!<\/p>\n

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

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

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\u00a0 Thanks to Libby for spotting the ID of the next one \u2013 I was on the point of posting it as something else!\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum.<\/p>\n

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Orthosia revicta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Orthosia praeses <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Orthosia transparens <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Feralia comstocki <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a caterpillar of a Winter Moth<\/strong>.\u00a0 It came in on a leaf that was intended for someone else, but I thought I might as well photograph it before putting it out again on Mount Tolmie.\u00a0 At this time of year it is difficult to find foodplants that do not already have one or more Winter Moth caterpillars per twig.<\/p>\n

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Winter Moth Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2020 April 23 St George’s Day \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Mr E sends a photograph of a Yellow-bordered TaIldropper Slug from Saanich (rather a large area!) yesterday:   \u00a0 Prophysaon foliolatum (Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Mr E \u00a0\u00a0 And a non-biting midge, Family Chironomidae,\u00a0 possibly genus Chironomus.\u00a0 Although we cannot be absolutely certain of the genus, we can at […]<\/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-10475","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\/10475","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=10475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10488,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475\/revisions\/10488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}