{"id":15808,"date":"2022-06-26T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T18:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15808"},"modified":"2022-06-30T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:00:25","slug":"2022-june-26-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15808","title":{"rendered":"2022 June 26 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 June 26 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gordon Hart sends a picture of a spider and a beetle.\u00a0 Thanks to Thomas Barbin for identifying the spider as a male <strong><em>Misumena vatia<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 somewhat different from the familiar female!\u00a0 There\u2019s not much to go on for the beetle, but Scott Gilmore says he\u2019ll have to \u201cguess a little\u201d and suggests <strong><em>Bruchidius villosus<\/em><\/strong>.<\/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\/2022\/06\/Crab-Spider.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"813\" height=\"646\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male <em>Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae) and possibly <em>Bruchidius villosus <\/em>(Col.: Chrysomelidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While fetching fresh Hardhack to feed her now ravenous Ceanothus Silk Moths, Rosemary found this noctuid caterpillar:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Aseptis-binotat-la.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"726\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Aseptis binotata <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Yip sends photographs of dragonflies seen in his Nanoose garden.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for identifying them for us.<\/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\/2022\/06\/220624yard-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blue-eyed Darner <em>Rhionaeschna multicolor <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220624yard-050.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Common Green Darner <em>Anax junius <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220624yard-055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"842\" height=\"569\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Common Whitetail <em>Plathemis lydia <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220624yard-065.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blue Dasher <em>Pachydiplax longipennis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steven Roias has been watching two <strong>Polyphemus <\/strong>cocoons since last year, and he writes:\u00a0 This morning, one of the two pupae hatched &#8211; a beautiful boy! We released him tonight in the backyard and watched him fly away. Now the great anticipation for the second pupa.<\/p>\n<div id=\"signature\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 June 26 morning \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart sends a picture of a spider and a beetle.\u00a0 Thanks to Thomas Barbin for identifying the spider as a male Misumena vatia \u2013 somewhat different from the familiar female!\u00a0 There\u2019s not much to go on for the beetle, but Scott Gilmore says he\u2019ll have to \u201cguess a little\u201d [&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-15808","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\/15808","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=15808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15855,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808\/revisions\/15855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}