{"id":10617,"date":"2020-05-06T16:31:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10617"},"modified":"2020-05-06T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:36:12","slug":"may-6-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10617","title":{"rendered":"May 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a Picture of a Western Spring Azure <\/strong>nectaring on Geranium molle <\/em>in Metchosin yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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    Val George writes:  I found this nest of baby spiders in my garden in Oak Bay yesterday morning, May 5.  I think these little guys are Cross<\/strong> Orbweavers <\/strong>Araneus<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>diadematus<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Araneus diadematus <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae)  Val George<\/p>\n

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   Mr E sends some photographs of a brown lacewing <\/strong>adult and larva.  <\/p>\n

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Brown lacewing (Neu.:  Hemerobiidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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Brown lacewing (Neu.:  Hemerobiidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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Brown lacewing (Neu.:  Hemerobiidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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Brown lacewing (Neu.:  Hemerobiidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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   Mr E also sends photographs of a “mish-mash” of other interesting creatures:<\/p>\n

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Blue-green Sharpshooter Hordnia atropunctata <\/em> (Hem.: Cicadellidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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Leafhopper  Ceratagallia <\/em>sp. (Hem.: Cicadellidae) Mr E<\/p>\n

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   Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for confirming the spider below as a male crab spider<\/strong> of the genus X<\/strong>ysticus.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Xysticus <\/em>sp (Ara.: Thomisidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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   We think the following fly is in Muscidae – Phaoniinae, but we cannot be certain whether it is Phaonia <\/em>or Fannia<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Fly (Dip.: Muscidae – Phaoniinae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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Fly (Dip.: Muscidae – Phaoniinae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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   Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying the beetle below:<\/p>\n

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Raspberry Fruitworm Beetle Byturus unicolor <\/em> (Col.:  Byturidae ) 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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2020 May 6      Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a Picture of a Western Spring Azure nectaring on Geranium molle in Metchosin yesterday.   Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr       Val George writes:  I found this nest of baby spiders in my garden in Oak Bay yesterday morning, May 5.  I […]<\/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-10617","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\/10617","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=10617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}