{"id":13498,"date":"2021-03-19T16:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13498"},"modified":"2021-03-21T15:12:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T22:12:56","slug":"march-19-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13498","title":{"rendered":"March 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021 March 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>More photographs by Ian Cooper from Colquitz River Park and the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal yesterday morning, March 18.\u00a0 We start off with an extraordinary wingless hymenopteran kindly identified for us by Claudia Copley as <em><strong>Polyaulon canadensis<\/strong><\/em><strong>.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong> Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I know nothing about the natural history of this unusual insect, although it is classified in the Family Ichneumonidae, most (all?) of whose members are parasitoidal on other invertebrates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 482px; 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\/03\/pastedImage-87.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Polyaulon canadensis <\/em>(Hym.: Ichneumonidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 514px; 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\/03\/pastedImage-88.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Polyaulon canadensis <\/em>(Hym.: Ichneumonidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Ian writes:\u00a0 I finally got to see the mature resident <strong>trapdoor spider<\/strong> of the large burrow entrance spotted some days ago that I was so excited about.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 499px; 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\/03\/pastedImage-89.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Trapdoor spider &#8211; <em>Antrodiaetus pacificus<\/em> (Ara.-Myg.: \u00a0Antrodiaetidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 474px; 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\/03\/pastedImage-90.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Possibly <em>Neriene sp<\/em>. (Ara.: Linyphiidae)\u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 474px; 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\/03\/pastedImage-91.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Harvestman probably <em>Protolophus\u00a0<\/em>sp. (Opi.: Phalangiidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">feeding on a larva of some sort<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 485px; 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\/03\/pastedImage-92.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Drone Fly <em>Eristalis tenax <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna sends photographs of a bumble bee from her Kemp Lake area garden, March 18.\u00a0\u00a0 We are grateful to Gordon Hart, who, while pleading that he is not an expert, answered our request to have a go at identification.\u00a0 He comes up with probably <em>Bombus sitkensis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 553px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image014.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\/03\/pastedImage-93.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"372.42965641952986\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Bombus <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 554px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image016.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\/03\/pastedImage-94.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"400.4967509025271\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Bombus <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 558px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image018.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\/03\/pastedImage-95.png\" width=\"513.6\" height=\"393.72926391382407\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Bombus <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 2021 March 19 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 More photographs by Ian Cooper from Colquitz River Park and the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal yesterday morning, March 18.\u00a0 We start off with an extraordinary wingless hymenopteran kindly identified for us by Claudia Copley as Polyaulon canadensis.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I know nothing about the natural history [&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-13498","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\/13498","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=13498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13537,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions\/13537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}