{"id":1390,"date":"2015-02-09T23:49:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T07:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:13","slug":"february-9-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"February 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} .ms-cui-menu {background-color:#ffffff;border:1px rgb(166, 166, 166) solid;font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);} .ms-cui-menusection-title {display:none;} .ms-cui-ctl {vertical-align:text-top;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);} .ms-cui-ctl-on {background-color:rgb(205, 230, 247);opacity: 0.8;} .ms-cui-img-cont-float {display:inline-block;margin-top:2px} .ms-cui-smenu-inner {padding-top:0px;} .ms-owa-paste-option-icon {margin: 0px 6px 0px 6px;vertical-align:middle!important;padding-bottom: 2px;display:inline-block;} .ms-rtePasteFlyout-option:hover {background-color:rgb(205, 230, 247) !important;opacity:1 !important;} .ms-rtePasteFlyout-option {padding:8px 4px 8px 4px;outline:none;} .ms-cui-menusection {float:left; 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It is certainly terrestrial and certainly doesn&#8217;t have a backbone &#8211; the <strong>Common Earthworm<\/strong>.<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum sends a picture of one from his Saanich apartment this morning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 536px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"536\" setheight=\"346\" originalheight=\"775\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Earthworm.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image54d9479a2f4f3.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Common Earthworm <em>Lumbricus terrestris <\/em>(Hap.: Lumbricidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Also a <strong>Winter Oak Highflyer <\/strong>moth. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 505px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"505\" setheight=\"401\" originalheight=\"953\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"HYdriomena nubilofasciatga.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image54d9479a30e3f.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;Winter Oak Highflyer <em>Hydriomena nubilofasciata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Meanwhile Bill Katz is keeping me on my toes with more <strong>pugs<\/strong> &#8211; this time from Goldstream Park, February 8.&nbsp; I find pugs hard to identify.&nbsp; Bill suggests that the first one below is <strong><em>Eupithecia annulata <\/em><\/strong>and I think I agree, but I cannot be 100 percent certain.&nbsp; The other, for the time being, will have to remain as <em>Eupithecia <\/em>sp.&nbsp; I can see that I&#8217;m going to have to work on this large genus.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"530\" originalwidth=\"899\" name=\"\" title=\"Feb15_Pug3_Goldstrm.JPG\" height=\"351.3681868743048\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image54d9479a327b6.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Eupithecia annulata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Bill Katz<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"724\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Feb15_Pug2_Goldstrm.JPG\" height=\"359.58666666666664\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image54d9479a32b41.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pug <em>Eupithecia <\/em>sp.<em> <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Bill Katz<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy continues:&nbsp; I got a surprise when I opened my fridge door this morning.&nbsp; There, looking somewhat forlorn and waiting patiently just inside the door, was this large bug:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 541px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"541\" setheight=\"393\" originalheight=\"871\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Leptoglossus.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image54d9479a339a5.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Leptoglossus occidentalis <\/em>(Hem.: Coreidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Gatten writes:&nbsp; The unseasonably warm conditions have got the moths moving. &nbsp;Yesterday (February 8) I had six species on the Saanich Peninsula. &nbsp;Here are the species I have seen: <strong><em>Phigalia plumogeraria<\/em><\/strong> (3), <strong><em>Eupithecia annulata<\/em><\/strong> (1), <strong><em>Emmelina monodactyla<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>(4), <strong><em>Agonopterix alstroemeriana<\/em><\/strong> (1), <strong><em>Hydriomena nubilofasciata<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>(1), and <strong> <em>Egira hiemalis<\/em><\/strong> (3).&nbsp; He sends a shot of the latter.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1000\" originalwidth=\"750\" name=\"\" title=\"Egira hiemalis (Saanichton, BC - February 8, 2015).jpg\" height=\"794.6666666666666\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image54d9479a34bc6.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira hiemalis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Gatten<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2105 February 9 &nbsp; 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