{"id":13230,"date":"2021-02-06T16:03:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T00:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13230"},"modified":"2021-02-25T13:53:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:53:52","slug":"february-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13230","title":{"rendered":"February 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 February 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0Gordon Hart writes from the Highlands:\u00a0 The sunshine yesterday (Friday, February 5) brought out an early <strong>Drone Fly<\/strong> <strong><em>Eristalis tenax<\/em><\/strong> sunning itself on a frond of <em>Polypodium glycyrrhiza<\/em> (Liquorice Fern). \u00a0I am basing the identification on a photo from the same area last year on March 10.\u00a0 [Agreed!\u00a0 &#8211; Jeremy Tatum]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 557px; 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\/2021\/02\/pastedImage-1.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eristalis tenax <\/em>(Dip.:\u00a0 Syrphidae) Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna writes from Kemp Lake:\u00a0 I have been keeping track of our\u00a0<strong><em>Nearctula<\/em><\/strong> species snails. It varies from day to day but yesterday I counted 68 on the seven trunks in our Big Leaf Maple group. I&#8217;ve kept a daily record and have just sent it off to K. Ovaska. I wonder what they will make of next week&#8217;s cold and snow?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 492px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.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\/2021\/02\/pastedImage-2.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nearctula <\/em>sp. (Pul.: Vertiginidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 367px; 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\/2021\/02\/pastedImage-3.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Snout mite (Acari:\u00a0 Bdellidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 February 6 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Gordon Hart writes from the Highlands:\u00a0 The sunshine yesterday (Friday, February 5) brought out an early Drone Fly Eristalis tenax sunning itself on a frond of Polypodium glycyrrhiza (Liquorice Fern). \u00a0I am basing the identification on a photo from the same area last year on March 10.\u00a0 [Agreed!\u00a0 &#8211; Jeremy [&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-13230","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\/13230","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=13230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13305,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13230\/revisions\/13305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}