{"id":10684,"date":"2020-05-11T15:56:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T22:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10684"},"modified":"2020-05-13T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T18:15:41","slug":"may-11-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10684","title":{"rendered":"May 11 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 May 11 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rosemary Jorna sends photographs of two bugs from her garden near Kemp Lake, May 10. Thanks to Libby Avis, our moth expert, for identifying the first of these as <strong><em>Raglius <\/em><em>alboacuminatus.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>In an earlier version of this posting (writes Jeremy Tatum) I speculated that it was a &#8220;seed bug&#8221; of the Family Lygaeidae.\u00a0 Apparently I wasn&#8217;t too far off the mark.\u00a0 It is now classified as a &#8220;dirt-coloured seed bug&#8221; of the Family Rhyparochromidae, which was until recently a Subfamily of the seed bugs, Lygaeidae, but which now has full Family status.\u00a0 The title &#8220;dirt-coloured&#8221; seems a little unfair for this particular species!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-75.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Raglius alboacuminatus <\/em> (Hem.: Rhyparochromidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We don&#8217;t yet know\u00a0 the identification of Rosemary&#8217;s second bug, below, but, I hate to say it, it does seem rather that the appellation &#8220;dirt-coloured&#8221; seems a bit more appropriate.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-76.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Possible dirt-coloured seed bug (Hem.: Rhyparochromidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 We have no expertise in ants or aphidids, either, so any help with Mr E&#8217;s photograph below would be greatly appreciated!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-77.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ants and aphids.\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Eupithecia <\/em><\/strong><strong>spp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Hydriomena manzanita\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>8 Melanophia imitata\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Perizoma curvilinea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>7 Tyria jacobaeae <\/em><\/strong>(6 of them inside the lamp!)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>6 Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Xanthorhoe defensaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-78.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"291.7051282051282\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eupithecia <\/em>sp<em>. <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-79.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"268.75128205128203\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eupithecia <\/em>sp<em>. <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-80.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"270.66410256410256\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eupithecia ravocostaliata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-81.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"315.6153846153846\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Melanolophia imitata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 May 11 afternoon Rosemary Jorna sends photographs of two bugs from her garden near Kemp Lake, May 10. Thanks to Libby Avis, our moth expert, for identifying the first of these as Raglius alboacuminatus.\u00a0 In an earlier version of this posting (writes Jeremy Tatum) I speculated that it was a &#8220;seed bug&#8221; of the [&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-10684","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\/10684","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=10684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10702,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions\/10702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}