{"id":12357,"date":"2020-09-27T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12357"},"modified":"2020-09-27T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T18:06:28","slug":"september-27-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12357","title":{"rendered":"September 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 September 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Some slugs and a beetle from the Galloping Goose Trail, photographed by Ian Cooper.&nbsp; Congratulations to Ian for gallantly rescuing some of the slugs by transferring them from the trail (where they were in danger of being&nbsp; squashed) to   the adjacent vegetation.&nbsp; I often do that myself! (Jeremy Tatum).&nbsp; Being squashed&nbsp;is not the only danger they face.&nbsp; The beetle shown has a taste for slugs and snails.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 541px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"541\" originalheight=\"373\" width=\"512.8\" height=\"353.5571164510166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-147.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Arion rufus <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 547px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"547\" originalheight=\"449\" width=\"512.8\" height=\"420.927239488117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-148.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Arion rufus <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 581px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"581\" originalheight=\"409\" width=\"512.8\" height=\"360.9900172117039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-151.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Banana Slug <em>Ariolimax columbianus <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 543px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"543\" originalheight=\"404\" width=\"512.8\" height=\"381.5307550644567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-152.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Snail-eating beetle <em>Scaphinotus angusticollis <\/em>  (Col.: Carabidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Agriphila <\/em><\/strong>(possibly<strong><em> straminella<\/em><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>4 Dryotype opina <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Dysstroma citrata <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>8 Ennomos magnaria&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Nepytia phantasmaria&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Noctua pronuba<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Pleromelloida cinerea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Plemyria georgii<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 294px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"294\" originalheight=\"439\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-149.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Dryotype opina <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"453\" width=\"512.8\" height=\"372.2730769230769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pastedImage-150.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Agriphila <\/em>(probably <em>straminella <\/em>  or <em>plumbifimbriellus<\/em>) (Lep.: Crambidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 September 27 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Some slugs and a beetle from the Galloping Goose Trail, photographed by Ian Cooper.&nbsp; Congratulations to Ian for gallantly rescuing some of the slugs by transferring them from the trail (where they were in danger of being&nbsp; squashed) to the adjacent vegetation.&nbsp; I often do that myself! (Jeremy Tatum).&nbsp; Being [&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-12357","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\/12357","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=12357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}