{"id":13235,"date":"2021-02-07T10:13:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13235"},"modified":"2021-02-09T18:24:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T02:24:46","slug":"february-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13235","title":{"rendered":"February 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 February 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>This morning we have two difficult ones.\u00a0\u00a0 First a photograph by Rosemary Jorna, Kemp Lake, of a maggot on a maple tree.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am almost certain, or I think I can even say certain, that it is the larva of a dipteran.\u00a0 I think we can go so far as to say Suborder Nematocera.\u00a0 It may be pushing it a bit to suggest perhaps Family Mycetophilidae, fungus gnats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 541px; 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\/2021\/02\/pastedImage-4.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"319.931977818854\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just possibly fungus gnat (Dip.: Mycetophilidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Next, two organisms photographed at Victoria Airport by Jody Wells, February 6.\u00a0 The larger of the two organisms is not an invertebrate, but is <em>Sialia currucoides <\/em>(Aves \u2013 Passeriformes \u2013 Turdidae).\u00a0 I think Jody is right in suggesting Hymenoptera for the smaller of the two.\u00a0 Maybe we can go so far as to suggest Superfamily Ichneumonoidea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 616px; 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\/2021\/02\/pastedImage-5.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"363.5220779220779\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mountain Bluebird with ichneumonoidean\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 February 7 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 This morning we have two difficult ones.\u00a0\u00a0 First a photograph by Rosemary Jorna, Kemp Lake, of a maggot on a maple tree.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes: &nbsp; I am almost certain, or I think I can even say certain, that it is the larva of a dipteran.\u00a0 I think we can [&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-13235","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\/13235","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=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13246,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions\/13246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}