{"id":12153,"date":"2020-09-08T09:21:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T16:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12153"},"modified":"2020-09-08T09:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T16:53:29","slug":"september-8-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12153","title":{"rendered":"September 8 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 September 8 morning<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 On Monday September 7, while I was waiting for the Bell&#8217;s Vireo to appear, a large bright green insect flew low over us. It landed nearby and I was able to find it. I have attached two photos. I was surprised to see that it was a <strong>Praying Mantis<\/strong>. I know there is a species that is native to BC in the south Okanagan, but apparently <strong>European Mantis, <\/strong><strong><em>Mantis religiosa<\/em><\/strong>, imported to eastern North America and the Okanagan for grasshopper control, have established themselves on east Vancouver Island in Maple Bay (Rob Cannings and G. C. E. Scudder, 2005).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ibis.geog.ubc.ca\/biodiversity\/efauna\/FamiliesofMantodeaofBritishColumbia.html\">https:\/\/ibis.geog.ubc.ca\/biodiversity\/efauna\/FamiliesofMantodeaofBritishColumbia.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since then, continues Gordon, I read last night that there is a small population on Galiano Island at Sturdies Bay (the ferry terminal is there), and also in the Fulford Valley on Salt Spring Island, also near the Fulford ferry terminal. Rob\u2019s article was 2005, so a lot has happened since then.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 591px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-23.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Praying Mantis <em>Mantis religiosa <\/em>(Mantodea:\u00a0 Mantidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 601px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-24.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Praying Mantis <em>Mantis religiosa <\/em>(Mantodea:\u00a0 Mantidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Euxoa difformis <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>7 (!) Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Feltia jaculifera<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 480px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-25.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Euxoa difformis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 September 8 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 On Monday September 7, while I was waiting for the Bell&#8217;s Vireo to appear, a large bright green insect flew low over us. It landed nearby and I was able to find it. I have attached two photos. I was surprised to see that it was [&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-12153","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\/12153","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=12153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12159,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153\/revisions\/12159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}