{"id":13593,"date":"2021-03-27T17:47:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T00:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13593"},"modified":"2021-03-27T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T00:56:01","slug":"march-27-afernoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13593","title":{"rendered":"March 27 afernoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna sends pictures of flies from the Kemp Lake area.   She points out that the first two are the same species that she photographed last year and which we identified then as:<\/p>\n

                          Certainly Empididae <\/em>  <\/em> <\/em>Probably Empis<\/em>    <\/em>Possibly  Empis barbatoides<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She says they put her off her dinner, and she’s glad they aren’t her size.<\/p>\n

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  Jeremy Tatum writes:  The third fly, in its actual size, would more likely put me off my dinner than the empidids.   I don’t know exactly what it is, although I think it is most likely one of the Calliphoridae.<\/p>\n

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Probably Empis <\/em>(Dip.: Empididae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Probably Empis <\/em>(Dip.: Empididae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Diptera, probably Calliphoridae     Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   Ian Cooper has been continuing wandering, on bicycle, along the Galloping Goose Trail in the middle of the night.  He photographed these creatures in the dead of night.  I don’t think any of us would like to meet them if they were our size.<\/p>\n

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Callobius pictus<\/em> (Ara.: Amaurobiidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Unidentified sheetweb spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Unidentified sheetweb spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Eratigena <\/em>(probably duellica<\/em>) (Ara: Agelenidae)   Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Flat-backed Millepede (Polydesmida:  Eurymerodesmidae) Ian Coope<\/p>\n

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     Almost as difficult as identifying millepedes is deciding how to spell them.  Millipede or millepede?  I can think of convincing arguments to support either spelling.  After arguing with myself for a while, I persuaded myself that we can make finer use of the English language if we distinguish between “milli” to mean a thousandth part of, as in millimetre, and “mille” if we mean a thousand, as in millepede.   To use the same spelling for both uses blurs its meaning and weakens our language. <\/p>\n

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2021 March 27 afternoon      Rosemary Jorna sends pictures of flies from the Kemp Lake area.   She points out that the first two are the same species that she photographed last year and which we identified then as:                           Certainly Empididae    Probably Empis    Possibly  Empis barbatoides. She says they put her off her dinner, […]<\/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-13593","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\/13593","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=13593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}