{"id":12703,"date":"2020-11-09T17:18:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T01:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12703"},"modified":"2020-11-09T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T01:26:04","slug":"november-9-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12703","title":{"rendered":"November 9 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 November 9 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs of a grasshopper and a dragonfly from Metchosin, November 7.&nbsp;&nbsp; Claudia Copley identifies the grasshopper as  <strong><em>Melanoplus <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>This is a large genus of very similar grasshoppers, which generally need close examination of a specimen, with a lens or microscope, for species identification.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 390px; 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=\"330\" originalheight=\"403\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-25.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Melanoplus <\/em>sp. (Orth.: Acrididae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Dr Rob Cannings identifies the dragonfly as a late female <strong>Yellow-legged Meadowhawk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He writes:&nbsp; This species, along with <em>Aeshna umbrosa<\/em> and <em>A. palmata<\/em>, is usually the last to disappear in the fall. The latest BC  <em>S. vicinum<\/em> record is about now (second week of Nov).<\/p>\n<p>&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_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"468\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"385.20000000000005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-26.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female Yellow-legged Meadowhawk<em> Sympetrum vicinum  <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Cooper sends photographs of two arionid slugs, which probably cannot be accurately identified to species without dissection.&nbsp; The first may be part of the  <em>Arion &#8220;hortensis&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp; complex, and the second may be part of the <em>A. &#8220;subfuscus&#8221;  <\/em>complex.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 490px; 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=\"490\" originalheight=\"430\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-27.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe <em>Arion &#8220;hortensis&#8221; <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 485px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"485\" originalheight=\"319\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pastedImage-28.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe <em>Arion &#8220;subfuscus&#8221; <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 November 9 evening &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs of a grasshopper and a dragonfly from Metchosin, November 7.&nbsp;&nbsp; Claudia Copley identifies the grasshopper as Melanoplus sp.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is a large genus of very similar grasshoppers, which generally need close examination of a specimen, with a lens or microscope, for species identification. &nbsp; Melanoplus [&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-12703","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\/12703","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=12703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}