{"id":10530,"date":"2020-04-28T16:27:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T23:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2020-04-28T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T23:29:41","slug":"april-28-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10530","title":{"rendered":"April 28"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Mr E has recently been photographing all sorts of creatures that are posing an identification challenge for us.  The first one is relatively easy.  It’s a pillbug<\/strong>.  Since it’s not, of course, a bug, it must be spelled as one word – pillbug – not as two ( “pill bug”).  It’s an isopod crustacean.<\/p>\n

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Pillbug Armadillidium vulgare <\/em>(Isopoda:  Armadillidiidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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   The next two are, first, a centipede, and then a termite of the soldier caste.  Thanks to Claudia Coploy for help with the identification of these.<\/p>\n

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Centipede (We think Lithobiomorpha:  maybe Lithobiidae)  Mr E <\/p>\n

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Termites used to belong to the Order Isoptera, but they are now joined with cockroaches in a new Order Blattodea.<\/p>\n

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Termite Reticulitermes hesperus <\/em>(Blat.: Rhinotermitidae)   Mr E<\/p>\n

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   And here are two amazing photographs of a crane fly<\/strong> emerging from its pupa.  It looks very like Tipula paludosa<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>though it’s hard to be sure until it has hardened and achieved its final colours.  Since it is<\/span> a fly, crane fly is written as two separate words (not “cranefly”).  <\/p>\n

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Crane Fly.  Probably Tipula paludosa <\/em>(Dip.: Tipulidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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Crane Fly.  Probably Tipula paludosa <\/em>(Dip.: Tipulidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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

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1 Acleris <\/em><\/strong>sp<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

7 Eupithecia<\/em><\/strong>s<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

1 Phyllodesma americana <\/em><\/strong>(still the same one)<\/p>\n

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

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

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Orthosia hibisci <\/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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Acleris <\/em>sp.(Lep.: Tortricidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  This pretty little chequered beetle<\/strong> paid me a visit in my apartment this morning:<\/p>\n

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Enoclerus eximius <\/em>(Col.: Cleridae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   Mr E sends photographs of Adela trigrapha<\/em><\/strong>.  These used to be in Incurvariidae, but are now moved to a Family of their own – Adelidae.<\/p>\n

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Adela trigrapha <\/em>(Lep.: Adelidae) Mr E<\/p>\n

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Adela trigrapha <\/em>(Lep.: Adelidae) Mr E<\/p>\n

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Adela trigrapha <\/em>(Lep.: Adelidae) Mr E<\/p>\n

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