{"id":13293,"date":"2021-02-22T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T22:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13293"},"modified":"2021-03-21T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T22:01:18","slug":"february-22-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13293","title":{"rendered":"February 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 February 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:\u00a0 This morning finally!\u00a0 After a night with 7 \u00b0C, three <strong><em>Egira hiemalis<\/em><\/strong> at the wall.<\/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_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-40.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"385.20000000000005\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira hiemalis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 &#8220;Lepidoptera&#8221; means &#8220;scale wings&#8221; \u2013 and you can see why from this photo!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some more small creatures from the Galloping Goose Trail photographed by Ian Cooper.\u00a0 First a small (4 mm) spider \u2013 two images of the same individual:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 415px; 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-41.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Spider (Ara.:\u00a0 Linyphiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 403px; 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-42.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Spider (Ara.:\u00a0 Linyphiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Next, two (different) harvestmen:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 498px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.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-43.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Harvestman &#8211; Probably <em>Protolophus<\/em> sp. (Opiliones)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 525px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.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-44.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"342.40000000000003\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Harvestman &#8211; possibly <em><span dir=\"ltr\">Paroligolophus agrestis<\/span><\/em> (Opiliones)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 We have not been able to identify the spider or harvestmen above.\u00a0 We have not been able to identify the Order of the creature below, though we believe it to be the larva of some sort of fly (Diptera). If anyone can help, please do so!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 533px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.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-45.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"345.9332082551595\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fly larva (Diptera)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 February 22 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:\u00a0 This morning finally!\u00a0 After a night with 7 \u00b0C, three Egira hiemalis at the wall. &nbsp; Egira hiemalis (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr &nbsp; &nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 &#8220;Lepidoptera&#8221; means &#8220;scale wings&#8221; \u2013 and you can see why from this photo! &nbsp; Here are some more [&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-13293","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\/13293","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=13293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13533,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13293\/revisions\/13533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}