{"id":10703,"date":"2020-05-13T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T18:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10703"},"modified":"2020-05-13T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T18:46:29","slug":"may-13-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10703","title":{"rendered":"May 13 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 May 13 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Bug identified!   Jeremy Tatum writes:  We have shown several  bugs (Hemiptera) recently, which I haven’t been able to identify.  So I am very happy that Libby Avis (who identifies most of our moths for us) has identified one of Rosemary Jorna’s bugs shown on May 10 afternoon (quod vide<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum  writes:   At 6:00 pm last evening, May 12, there were two Painted Ladies <\/strong>on the summit of Mount Tolmie.  But I am seeing very few butterflies at all anywhere this year.  Are other butterfliers finding this, too?<\/p>\n

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  Mr E sends a picture of a young juvenile spider.   It is a bit hard to identify juvenile spiders, but Dr Robb Bennett has a good stab at it!  Dr Bennett writes:  Definitely a juvenile, but Linyphiidae rather than Theridiidae. Could be a young Pityohyphantes<\/em> – that genus is characterized by a dark “tuning fork” pattern on the carapace, as in this specimen.  Though Pityo<\/em>s usually have a distinctive dark dorsal pattern on the abdomen, lacking here but that could just be because it’s a juvie…<\/p>\n

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Possibly Pityohyphantes <\/em>(Ara.:  Linyphiidae) Mr E<\/p>\n

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

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1 Apamea cinefacta <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

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

1 Nola minna<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

18 Tyria jacobaeae<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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2020 May 13 morning      Bug identified!   Jeremy Tatum writes:  We have shown several  bugs (Hemiptera) recently, which I haven’t been able to identify.  So I am very happy that Libby Avis (who identifies most of our moths for us) has identified one of Rosemary Jorna’s bugs shown on May 10 afternoon (quod vide). […]<\/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-10703","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\/10703","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=10703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}