{"id":13932,"date":"2021-05-09T17:41:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T00:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13932"},"modified":"2021-05-22T14:37:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T21:37:54","slug":"may-9-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13932","title":{"rendered":"May 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 May 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Sid and Rosemary Jorna have been photographing spiders in their Kemp Lake property \u2013 and Dr Robb\u00a0 Bennett has identified them for us.\u00a0 Of the first one, Dr Bennett writes:\u00a0 This is the introduced species <strong><em>Dysdera crocata<\/em><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> which the British call the slater slayer because of its taste for woodlice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; 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\/05\/pastedImage-20.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"446.2846153846154\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Dysdera crocata <\/em>(Ara.: \u00a0Dysderidae)\u00a0 Sid Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 576px; 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\/05\/pastedImage-21.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Philodromus rufus <\/em>(Ara.: Philodromidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr writes that he had no moths at all at his home in Metchosin this morning, but he had a pretty <strong><em>Buprestis\u00a0aurulenta.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 637px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.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\/05\/pastedImage-22.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"399.65086342229205\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Buprestis aurulenta <\/em>(Col.: Buprestidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum supposes that the Stinging Nettle developed its stings to discourage animals feeding on it.\u00a0 If so, it wasn&#8217;t entirely successful, for there are many butterfly and moth caterpillars, as well as small beetles, that feed on nettles.\u00a0 Here is a caterpillar that I found on Stinging Nettle earlier this year, near Blenkinsop Lake.\u00a0 Its translucent appearance suggested to me that it might be a crambid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 510px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.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\/05\/pastedImage-23.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Udea profundalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 The adult moth emerged today, and I released it near where the caterpillar was found<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.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\/05\/pastedImage-24.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"379.24615384615385\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Udea profundalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Here is another ordinary-looking green nettle-eating caterpillar.\u00a0 It could be any of dozens of species, and is doubless impossible to identify.\u00a0 But wait! \u00a0The caterpillar is far from ordinary. What special feature is apparent on this caterpillar that tells us that it is a species of <strong><em>Hypena<\/em><\/strong>?\u00a0\u00a0 It case you don&#8217;t spot it, I&#8217;ll post the answer in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.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\/05\/pastedImage-25.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"382.1192307692308\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hypena californica<\/em>\u00a0 (Lep.:\u00a0 Erebidae \u2013 Hypeninae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 May 9 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Sid and Rosemary Jorna have been photographing spiders in their Kemp Lake property \u2013 and Dr Robb\u00a0 Bennett has identified them for us.\u00a0 Of the first one, Dr Bennett writes:\u00a0 This is the introduced species Dysdera crocata, which the British call the slater slayer because of its taste for woodlice. 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