{"id":10646,"date":"2020-05-08T19:22:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T02:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10646"},"modified":"2020-05-09T09:20:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T16:20:03","slug":"may-8-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10646","title":{"rendered":"May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 May 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr E sends pictures of two <strong>crab spiders.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 Mr E suggests maybe <em>Mecaphesa, <\/em>and we are glad to have this confirmed by Robb Bennett.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-45.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"325.1794871794872\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Crab spider\u00a0<em>Mecaphesa\u00a0<\/em>sp (Ara.: Thomisidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-46.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"396.9102564102564\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Crab spider\u00a0<em>Mecaphesa\u00a0<\/em>sp. (Ara.: Thomisidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>For the next one, Mr E writes:\u00a0 for the nymph&#8230;.. I have no clue!!!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To which Jereny Tatum replies:\u00a0 I heartily agree!\u00a0 We can safely say that it is the nymph of a bug.\u00a0 If I were tentatively to suggest from the Family Delphacidae, that would be little more than a wild guess.\u00a0 If anyone can help, do let us know!\u00a0 jtatum at uvic dot ca<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-47.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"400.7358974358974\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nymph of bug (Hemiptera)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Two reports of first-of-year <strong>Ringlets <\/strong><strong><em>Coenonympha tullia<\/em><\/strong> from Island View Beach today.\u00a0 Four seen there by Sonia Voicescu, and three by Val George.\u00a0 Sonia also reported a <strong>comma<\/strong>\u00a0from there \u2013 doubtless a <strong>Satyr Comma.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 My personal first-of-year <strong>Propertius Duskywing<\/strong> just outside the entrance to the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 6::45 pm today, and on the reservoir, a <strong>California Tortoiseshell<\/strong>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll swear they preferentially settle on the small white patches there!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 May 8 \u00a0 Mr E sends pictures of two crab spiders.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E suggests maybe Mecaphesa, and we are glad to have this confirmed by Robb Bennett. Crab spider\u00a0Mecaphesa\u00a0sp (Ara.: Thomisidae)\u00a0 Mr E Crab spider\u00a0Mecaphesa\u00a0sp. (Ara.: Thomisidae)\u00a0 Mr E \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For the next one, Mr E writes:\u00a0 for the nymph&#8230;.. I have no [&hellip;]<\/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-10646","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\/10646","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=10646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10651,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions\/10651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}