{"id":13651,"date":"2021-04-01T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T21:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13651"},"modified":"2021-04-01T14:56:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T21:56:59","slug":"april-1-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13651","title":{"rendered":"April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    <\/strong>Egira crucialis\/simplex <\/em> is a difficult pair of moths to identify, and it keeps us moth-ers guessing every year.  Kirsten Mills  sent a photograph of one from near Hillside Mall, March 31.  It looks very close to the moth shown on March 28 and which is known to be  <\/em>crucualis.<\/em>  <\/em>Libby Avis and Jeremy Tatum both believe that Kirsten’s moth most likely is indeed Egira crucialis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Egira crucialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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   The wasp below, photographed by Rosemary Jorna in the Kemp Lake area, March 31, also poses an identification problem, but Darren Copley and Sean McCann both suggest Vespula acadica<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Vespula acadica <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Vespula acadica<\/em> (Hym.: Vespidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   And here’s a bug from the same area:<\/p>\n

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Kleidocerys resedae <\/em>(Hem.: Lygaeidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   Rosemary has been finding some very tiny creatures on the trunks of her maple trees.  I had no idea, writes Jeremy Tatum,  what the animal below is, so I was glad that Charlene Wood immediately spotted it as a springtail, of a rather different sort from the ones that have been appearing recently on this site.  A quick email followed, to springtail expert Frans Janssens in Antwerp, who zeroed in to genus:  Pogonognathellus<\/em><\/strong> sp.<\/strong>  <\/strong> The white area to the right in the first photograph below is a fingernail. Frans writes:  Tomocerinae are easily recognised by the distinctly long antennae, more especially the long third antennal segment.<\/p>\n

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Pogonognathellus<\/em> sp.  (Coll.:  Entomobryomorpha – Tomoceridae – Tomocerinae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Pogonognathellus<\/em> sp.  (Coll.:  Entomobryomorpha – Tomoceridae – Tomocerinae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>We don’t yet know what the tiny creature in the next two photographs is.   Also photographed by Rosemary near Kemp Lake. Possibly it might be a bark louse, Psocodea.<\/p>\n

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Possibly a bark louse (Psocodea)?  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Possibly a bark louse (Psocodea)?  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Ian Cooper sends a photograph of a nematoceran fly, which we believe is probably of the Family Tipulidae, the Family that includes the familiar crane flies.<\/p>\n

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Probably a crane fly (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Probably “leatherjacket” larva of a crane fly Tipula paludosa<\/em> (Dep.: Tipulidae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Nonbiting midge (Dip.: Chironomidae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Possibly Ambigolimax valentianus<\/em> (Pul.: Limacidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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2021 April 1       Egira crucialis\/simplex  is a difficult pair of moths to identify, and it keeps us moth-ers guessing every year.  Kirsten Mills  sent a photograph of one from near Hillside Mall, March 31.  It looks very close to the moth shown on March 28 and which is known to be  crucualis.  Libby Avis […]<\/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-13651","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\/13651","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=13651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}