{"id":16476,"date":"2022-08-31T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T18:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16476"},"modified":"2022-08-31T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T18:18:34","slug":"2022-august-31-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16476","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 31 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 August 31 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Ian Cooper recently photographed two <em>Psyllobora <\/em>lady beetles that look rather similar, but which are different species.&nbsp; The two photographs make a useful comparison of the two.&nbsp; Scott Gilmore writes:&nbsp; The close up one is <em>P. borealis<\/em> and the other is a darker form of <em>P. vigintimaculata<\/em>. The second one can be quite variable but never has a small isolated spot near the outer edge of the elytra.&nbsp;<\/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\/2022\/08\/Psyllo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"393\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Psyllobora borealis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)&nbsp; 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\/2022\/08\/Psyllo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"372\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Psyllobora vigintimaculata <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)&nbsp; Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 August 31 morning &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Cooper recently photographed two Psyllobora lady beetles that look rather similar, but which are different species.&nbsp; The two photographs make a useful comparison of the two.&nbsp; Scott Gilmore writes:&nbsp; The close up one is P. borealis and the other is a darker form of P. vigintimaculata. The second one [&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-16476","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\/16476","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=16476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}