{"id":12921,"date":"2020-12-08T11:06:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12921"},"modified":"2020-12-10T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:36:03","slug":"december-8-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12921","title":{"rendered":"December 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 December 8
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An earwig, and slugs galore from Colquitz River Park, by Ian Cooper:<\/p>\n

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Male Common Earwig\u00a0 Forficula auricularia <\/em> (Derm.: Forficulidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n


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Limax maximus <\/em>(Pul.: Limacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n


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Deroceras reticulatum <\/em>(Pul.: Agriolimacidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n


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Arion <\/em>sp. (possibly circumstriptus<\/em>) (Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Robert Forsyth comments:\u00a0 The hole in the top of the mantle (not the pneumostome, which is on the side, but not clear here) would seem to be a wound (failed predation, or perhaps disease). There are slugs (Hemphillia <\/em>spp.) with an area of the dorsal mantle ‘cut away’ to expose a flat shell, but this isn’t one of them. This Arion<\/em> is somewhat reminiscent of Arion circumscriptus<\/em>, but I wouldn’t say for certain.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/em>Top:\u00a0 <\/em>Deroceras reticulatum <\/em>(Pul.: Agriolimacidae)<\/p>\n

Bottom:\u00a0 Oxychilus draparnaudi <\/em>(Pul.: Daubebariidae)<\/p>\n

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Possibly a young Limax maximus <\/em>(Pul.: Limacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 We are continuing to make efforts to distinguish between the Western and European Winter Moths, Operophtera occidentalis <\/em>\u00a0and O. brumata<\/em>.\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:<\/p>\n

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This morning, 13 Operophtera<\/em>, 9 I would call brumata<\/em>, and 4 occidentalis<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0I attach the images of 7 of them, which I was able to reach with the tripod-mounted camera.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 I agree that the first two may be occidentalis<\/em>, though without any huge degree of certainty. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I would call the remaining five brumata<\/em>, but again without any pretence of certainty.<\/p>\n

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We’d encourage moth-ers to try to get some good photos of winter moths at the Goldstream Park Nature House.\u00a0 Some of them there look like very obvious occidentalis<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Amazingly, I haven’t seen any of either species at my Saanich apartment building for some weeks.<\/p>\n

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Operophtera <\/em>(probably occidentalis<\/em>)\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n


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Operophtera <\/em>(probably occidentalis<\/em>)\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n


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Operophtera <\/em>(brumata<\/em>?)\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n


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Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n


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Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n


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Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n


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Operophtera <\/em>(brumata<\/em>?)\u00a0\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2020 December 8 \u00a0 An earwig, and slugs galore from Colquitz River Park, by Ian Cooper: \u00a0 Male Common Earwig\u00a0 Forficula auricularia (Derm.: Forficulidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae) Ian Cooper Arion sp. (possibly circumstriptus) (Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper \u00a0\u00a0 Robert Forsyth comments:\u00a0 The hole in the top […]<\/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-12921","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\/12921","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=12921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12937,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921\/revisions\/12937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}