{"id":16347,"date":"2022-08-25T07:48:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T14:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16347"},"modified":"2022-08-26T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T00:54:12","slug":"2022-august-24-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16347","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 24 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2022 August 24 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Richard Rycraft photographed this bug just days after Ian Cooper photographed a similar one \u2013 the only photographs we have received of this insect since 2015.<\/p>\n

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Phytocoris tiliae <\/em>(Hem.: Miridae)\u00a0 Richard Rycraft<\/p>\n

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Ian Cooper photographed this series of arachnids \u201cworking the night shift\u201d earlier this month.\u00a0 The trapdoor spider was in View Royal; \u00a0the remainder in Colquitz River Park.\u00a0 We thank Dr Robb Bennett for confirming Ian\u2019s \u00a0spider identifications and for supplying the additional comments.\u00a0 Robb also writes: They are all very nice images.<\/p>\n

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Ero <\/em>(probably tuberculata<\/em>)\u00a0 (Ara.: Mimetidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 This is an Ero<\/em> species \u2013 mimetid spiders that specialize in eating other spiders. \u00a0Our single native species of Ero <\/em>is E. canionis<\/em> but I think<\/em> this is our relatively recently introduced species \u2013 E. tuberculata<\/em> (apparently two pairs of dorsal abdominal humps (\u201ctubercles\u201d) versus a single pair in canionis<\/em>). \u00a0Not known here a few years ago, it is now fairly common around southern Vancouver Island and the lower mainland.<\/p>\n

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Enoplognatha ovata <\/em>(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Enoplognatha ovata <\/em>(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This common theridiid spider comes in several colOur morphs.\u00a0 Sean McCann and Catherine Scott did a great study at Island View Beach of this spider preying on other spiders.<\/p>\n

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Dysdera crocata <\/em>(Ara.: Dysderidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>This is an immature Dysdera crocata<\/em> \u2013 the introduced “slater slayer” (specializes in eating isopods).<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>\"\"Trapdoor spider\u00a0 Antrodiaetus pacificus <\/em>(Ara., Mygalomorphae:\u00a0 Antrodiaetidae<\/p>\n

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Harvestman.\u00a0 Possibly Nelima paessleri<\/em><\/p>\n

(Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae<\/a> )<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Marie O\u2019Shaugnessy photographed this Cardinal Meadowhawk<\/strong> on August 23 at Beckwith Park.\u00a0 It is holding its wings forward in typical Meadowhawk \u00a0fashion.<\/p>\n

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Cardinal Meadowhawk Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2022 August 24 morning \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Richard Rycraft photographed this bug just days after Ian Cooper photographed a similar one \u2013 the only photographs we have received of this insect since 2015.   Phytocoris tiliae (Hem.: Miridae)\u00a0 Richard Rycraft   Ian Cooper photographed this series of arachnids \u201cworking the night shift\u201d earlier this month.\u00a0 The trapdoor […]<\/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-16347","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\/16347","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=16347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16402,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16347\/revisions\/16402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}