{"id":11346,"date":"2020-07-05T10:41:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T17:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11346"},"modified":"2020-07-05T10:46:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T17:46:41","slug":"july-5-morning-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11346","title":{"rendered":"July 5 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 July 5 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Mr E sends a miscellany of photographs, which are a challenge to identify.&nbsp; If any viewer can help with any of these, please let us know:&nbsp; jtatum at uvic dot &nbsp;ca<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One hesitates even to think of identifying aphidids, but, writes Jeremy Tatum, I think these ones on a young Broom pod may be  <strong><em>Acyrthosiphon pisum<\/em><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 325px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"325\" originalheight=\"613\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-22.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Acyrthosiphon pisum <\/em>(Hem.: Aphididae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 604px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"604\" originalheight=\"436\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-23.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Spittle Bug <em>Philaenus spumarius <\/em>(Hem.: Cercopidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 656px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"656\" originalheight=\"475\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-24.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Spittle Bug <em>Philaenus spumarius <\/em>(Hem.: Cercopidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Dr Robb Bennett confirms Mr E&#8217;s identification of the spider below as <strong>  <em>Tibellus<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>and almost certainly<em> <\/em><em><strong>T. oblongus<\/strong><\/em><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 618px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"618\" originalheight=\"455\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-25.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tibellus <\/em>(almost certainly <em>oblongus<\/em>) (Ara.: Philodromidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I despair of identifying this fly.&nbsp; Perhaps some viewer can help?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 682px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"682\" originalheight=\"475\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-26.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unidentified fly (Diptera)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Ichneumons are even more difficult.&nbsp; Parasitoidal hymenopterans known loosely &nbsp;(and not always correctly) as &#8220;ichmeumon wasps&#8221; belong to several Families, but I believe this one is probably a genuine ichneumon wasp of the Family Ichneumonidae.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 566px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"566\" originalheight=\"453\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pastedImage-27.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hym.: probably Ichneumonidae&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More, awaiting identification, to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 July 5 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Mr E sends a miscellany of photographs, which are a challenge to identify.&nbsp; If any viewer can help with any of these, please let us know:&nbsp; jtatum at uvic dot &nbsp;ca &nbsp; One hesitates even to think of identifying aphidids, but, writes Jeremy Tatum, I think these ones on [&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-11346","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\/11346","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=11346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}