{"id":10947,"date":"2020-05-30T19:31:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T02:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10947"},"modified":"2020-05-30T19:35:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T02:35:55","slug":"may-30-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10947","title":{"rendered":"May 30 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>A miscellany from Mr E.  First, a beetle that, at first sight, looks quite similar to either of two beetles photographed earlier this month :  Dichelotaurus <\/em>sp. (Cantharidae),  May 5, by Rosemary Jorna,  and Grammoptera molybdica <\/em>(Cerambycidae), May 17, by Mr E.    Jeremy Tatum writes:  I tried to decide which of the two is today’s beetle.  I was quite wrong!   Scott Gilmore tells us that it is another beetle from another Family!  It is Plateumaris<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>sp., from Family Chrysomelidae, Subfamily  Donaciinae – Aquatic Leaf Beetles.<\/p>\n

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Plateumaris <\/em>sp. (Col.: Chrysomelidae – Donaciinae)   Mr E<\/p>\n

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    We are grateful to Scott also for identifying a weevil photographed by Mr E, as the Obscure Root Weevil.  Here “Obscure” doesn’t mean we don’t know quite what it is – “Obscure” is its official name!<\/p>\n

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Obscure Root Weevil Sciopithes obscurus <\/em>(Col.: Curculionidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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   Me E also photographed this crane fly (not the usual European one we see all too often).<\/p>\n

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Phoroctenia vittata <\/em>(Dip.: Tipulidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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Phoroctenia vittata <\/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 Eupithecia <\/em><\/strong>sp<\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Nadata gibbosa <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Pero <\/em><\/strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

1 Udea profundalis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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   The genus Pero<\/em> has five species in British Columbia, all of them variable, with the variation within each species at least as much as the variation between them, thus making identification from a photograph difficult.  We’ll leave this one as Pero <\/em><\/strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pero <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2020 May 30 evening      A miscellany from Mr E.  First, a beetle that, at first sight, looks quite similar to either of two beetles photographed earlier this month :  Dichelotaurus sp. (Cantharidae),  May 5, by Rosemary Jorna,  and Grammoptera molybdica (Cerambycidae), May 17, by Mr E.    Jeremy Tatum writes:  I tried to decide […]<\/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-10947","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\/10947","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=10947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}