{"id":15074,"date":"2021-10-09T11:26:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T18:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15074"},"modified":"2021-10-09T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T18:28:07","slug":"2021-october-9-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15074","title":{"rendered":"2021 October 9 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 October 9 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin reports a <strong>Painted Lady <\/strong>on the summit of Christmas Hill, 3:45 pm, October 9.&nbsp; If we get some sun, it might be worth going up there &ndash; especially in the late afternoon &ndash; just on the off-chance that it might be an American Lady.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a <strong>Yellow Woolly Bear <\/strong>from the Lochside Trail north of Blenkinsop Lake, October 8.&nbsp; (woolly = British spelling,&nbsp; wooly&nbsp; = American;&nbsp; here we takes our choice.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/F-Caterpillar-gold-1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"472\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yellow Woolly Bear <em>Spilosoma virginica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &ndash; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; And Ian Cooper sends another woolly bear from the same trail, October 6:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Banded-W-B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Banded Woolly Bear <em>Pyrrharctia isabella <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &ndash; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Three spiders and two bugs from Ian.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for the spider identifications.&nbsp; Robb writes:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;A is a female <em>Agelenopsis<\/em> grass funnel-web spider. Most likely <em>A. potteri <\/em>or <em>A. utahana<\/em> although there are other species in our neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>B is an <em>Antrodiaetus<\/em> in her burrow. Local coastal species is <em>A. pacificus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>C is a male <em>Eratigena duellica<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spider-A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"563\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Grass funnel-web spider <em>Agelenopsis potteri<\/em>\/<em>utahana <\/em>(Ara.: Agelenidae &ndash; Ageleninae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spider-B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"506\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Antrodiaetus pacificus <\/em>(Ara.&ndash; Myg.: Androdiaetidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spider-C.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"489\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eratigena duellica <\/em>(Ara.: Agelenidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSC01745c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"497\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Red-cross Shield Bug <em>Elasmostethus cruciatus<\/em> (Hem.: Acanthosomatidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSC01860c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rhododendron Leafhopper <em>Graphocephala fennahi <\/em>(Hem.: Cicadellidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 October 9 morning &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin reports a Painted Lady on the summit of Christmas Hill, 3:45 pm, October 9.&nbsp; If we get some sun, it might be worth going up there &ndash; especially in the late afternoon &ndash; just on the off-chance that it might be an American Lady. &nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper sends [&hellip;]<\/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-15074","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\/15074","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=15074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}