{"id":12899,"date":"2020-12-06T15:08:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T23:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12899"},"modified":"2020-12-08T08:19:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:19:44","slug":"december-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12899","title":{"rendered":"December 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 December 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>More tiny, curious creatures from Colquitz River Park by Ian Cooper.\u00a0 We are grateful to Charlene Wood, who figured out what they are!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 440px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pastedImage-16.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lace bug <em>Acalypta <\/em>sp. (Hem.: Tingidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 472px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pastedImage-17.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ground beetle <em>Notiophilus <\/em>sp. (Col.: Carabidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 453px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pastedImage-18.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Barklouse (Psocodea: probably Lepidopsocidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Family suggested by Dr E. Mockford.)<\/p>\n<p>I asked Dr Mockford about the apparent lack of wings of this specimen.\u00a0 He replied: T<span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">here are some barklice \u00a0in which some adults have wings and others do not.\u00a0 In some the wings in one sex, usually females, are small knobs while the other sex has normal wings.\u00a0 There are a few in which some individuals have normal wings and others have no trace of wings. There are some forms, the booklice, genus Liposcelis, in which there is no trace of wings in either sex.\u00a0 In that group, the males are usually smaller than the females and undergo one fewer nymphal instars.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After a gap of four mothless nights in Metchosin, Jochen M\u00f6hr photographed a Winter Moth (to be expected) and a <em>Drepanulatrix <\/em>(rather later in the year than expected).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.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\/12\/pastedImage-19.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"341.5769230769231\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.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\/12\/pastedImage-20.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"304.53846153846155\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Drepanulatrix secundaria<\/em>\/<em>monicaria <\/em> (Lep. Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum photographed this Grey Firebrat in his Saanich apartment this morning.\u00a0 I am still waiting for a photograph from someone of the genuine Silverfish <em>Lepisma saccharina<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.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\/12\/pastedImage-21.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"353.1\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ctenolepisma longicaudata <\/em>(Thysanura: Lepismatidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s another from Ian Cooper.\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing what&#8217;s down there at our feet that many of us are unaware of.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 555px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pastedImage-22.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"339.62378378378384\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Flat-backed millipede (Polydesmida: probably Eurymerodesmidae \u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 December 6 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 More tiny, curious creatures from Colquitz River Park by Ian Cooper.\u00a0 We are grateful to Charlene Wood, who figured out what they are! &nbsp; Lace bug Acalypta sp. (Hem.: Tingidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper Ground beetle Notiophilus sp. (Col.: Carabidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper Barklouse (Psocodea: probably Lepidopsocidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper (Family suggested by Dr [&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-12899","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\/12899","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=12899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12919,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899\/revisions\/12919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}