{"id":13116,"date":"2021-01-09T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T21:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13116"},"modified":"2021-01-10T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:52:06","slug":"january-8-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13116","title":{"rendered":"January 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 January 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Two snouts in today&#8217;s offerings!\u00a0\u00a0 A snout mite by Ian Cooper, and a snout moth by Jochen M\u00f6hr.\u00a0 And yes, they both have snouts.\u00a0 Ian&#8217;s spiders are a bit difficult to be sure about to the exact species \u2013 the Family Linyphiidae is a huge Family with thousands of species of small spiders, which have not by any means all been sorted out.\u00a0 Perhaps better to leave them as Linyphiidae.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pastedImage-22.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A snout mite (Bdellidae) and a spider (probably Linyphiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pastedImage-23.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Snout moth <em>Hypena californica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Hypeninae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pastedImage-24.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably Linyphiidae\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pastedImage-25.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably Agelenidae\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 An interesting photograph of a winter moth from Jochen M\u00f6hr.\u00a0 I agree with Jochen that it is probably <strong><em>Operophtera occidentalis <\/em><\/strong><strong>\u2013 <\/strong>the middle terminal cell is slightly darker that the adjacent cells, and this is especially evident when viewed from a distance.\u00a0 But it is the hindwings that are interesting.\u00a0 One rarely gets to see the hindwings of <em>Operophtera<\/em>, and I don&#8217;t believe that <em> O. brumata<\/em> has any markings like this.<\/p>\n<p>Is this perhaps a way of distinguishing between the two species?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pastedImage-26.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"410.85\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Operophtera occidentalis <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 January 8 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Two snouts in today&#8217;s offerings!\u00a0\u00a0 A snout mite by Ian Cooper, and a snout moth by Jochen M\u00f6hr.\u00a0 And yes, they both have snouts.\u00a0 Ian&#8217;s spiders are a bit difficult to be sure about to the exact species \u2013 the Family Linyphiidae is a huge Family with thousands of species [&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-13116","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\/13116","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=13116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13126,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions\/13126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}