{"id":12475,"date":"2020-10-08T10:02:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12475"},"modified":"2020-10-09T06:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:50:33","slug":"october-8-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12475","title":{"rendered":"October 8 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 October 8 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna writes from Kemp Lake:\u00a0 Those\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>Scaphinotus angusticollis<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>(<strong>Snail-eating Ground Beetles<\/strong>) are abundant this year. I was removing some invasive plants from our property and uncovered 4 of them, only 2 hung round for a photoshoot. \u00a0They may have had something to do with the empty snail shell I found about 20 cm from them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 506px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" 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\/10\/pastedImage-44.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Scaphinotus angusticollis <\/em>(Col.: Carabidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 There were lots of <strong>Banded Woolly Bears <\/strong> (caterpillars of the Isabella Moth) at Panama Flats yesterday.\u00a0 October is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> the<\/span> month to find these caterpillars, and they are usually common at Panama Flats.\u00a0 In case anyone is tempted to rear one to adult moth, please be advised that these are among the most difficult of caterpillars to rear successfully, and they are not recommended for a first attempt to rear caterpillars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Three legs is all that Robb Bennett needed to identify the spider below, photographed by Ian Cooper along the Galloping Goose Trail.\u00a0 Dr Bennett writes:\u00a0 Nice photo! Yes, assuming it&#8217;s a local inhabitant, it&#8217;s <strong><em>Antrodiaetus pacificus<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0Waiting to kill something.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pastedImage-45.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Trapdoor Spider <em>Antrodiaetus pacificus <\/em>(Ara. \u2013 Myg.: Antrodiaetidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 October 8 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna writes from Kemp Lake:\u00a0 Those\u00a0\u00a0Scaphinotus angusticollis\u00a0(Snail-eating Ground Beetles) are abundant this year. I was removing some invasive plants from our property and uncovered 4 of them, only 2 hung round for a photoshoot. \u00a0They may have had something to do with the empty snail shell I found [&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-12475","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\/12475","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=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12487,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions\/12487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}