{"id":1374,"date":"2015-03-31T23:27:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:09","slug":"march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2015 March 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a weevil from his Saanich apartment this morning.&nbsp; It was identified for him by Scott Gilmore, who writes:&nbsp; Your beetle is <strong><em>Otiorhynchus singularis <\/em><\/strong><strong>(Raspberry Weevil)<\/strong> a native of Europe from the Curculionidae family. The genus is quite common (at least here). There are no native species in the genus, 5 species are known from BC and I have had 4 of them in my backyard. I am not even sure the 5<sup>th<\/sup> species is recorded from the island.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d538fe25.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588.8\" height=\"446.9973333333333\" title=\"weevil.JPG\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d538fe25.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d538fe25-300x228.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d538fe25-768x583.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d538fe25-1024x777.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Raspberry Weevil <em>Otiorhynchus singularis <\/em> (Col.: Curculionidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott sends a photo of another <strong>Bark Louse<\/strong> from the same cedar tree in his Upper Lantzville backyard. The attached picture is of <strong><em>Ectopsocus briggsi<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em>(Ectopsocidae family) that he found on March 10<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; Kindly identified by Diane Young.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5391621.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588.8\" height=\"404.6319634703196\" title=\"Ebriggsi.jpg\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5391621.jpeg 876w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5391621-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5391621-768x528.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" \/>Bark louse <em>Ectopsocus briggsi <\/em>(Pso.: Ectopsocidae) Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna writes, from Otter Point: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There were a half dozen of these<strong> bees <\/strong>landing on the damp stones of our path this afternoon. It was good to see them as I have not seen that many yet this spring.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; If there&rsquo;s anyone out there who can identify it, please let us know.&nbsp; In the meantime I hope I&rsquo;m not committing some dreadful blunder in labelling it <strong><em>Andrena <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5391b6e.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588.8\" height=\"523.5413333333333\" title=\"bee.jpg\" name=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5391b6e.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5391b6e-300x267.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5391b6e-768x683.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5391b6e-1024x911.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Andrena <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Andrenidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Bill Katz sends a photo of <strong><em>Coryphista meadii <\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>from that famous garage on Summit Hill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5392629.jpeg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 443px;\" title=\"150329_Coryphista meadii.jpg\" name=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5392629.jpeg 1125w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5392629-300x233.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5392629-768x597.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image551b2d5392629-1024x796.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" \/><em>Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Bill Katz<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 March 31 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a weevil from his Saanich apartment this morning.&nbsp; It was identified for him by Scott Gilmore, who writes:&nbsp; Your beetle is Otiorhynchus singularis (Raspberry Weevil) a native of Europe from the Curculionidae family. The genus is quite common (at least here). 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