{"id":16528,"date":"2022-09-04T20:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T03:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16528"},"modified":"2022-09-04T20:35:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T03:35:47","slug":"2022-september-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16528","title":{"rendered":"2022 September 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2022 September 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>We start today with three photographs of the unusual grey (rather than the usual brown) form of Neoalcis californiara<\/em><\/strong>, two from Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin today, and one from Keith Taylor in Victoria, August 31.\u00a0 Keith\u2019s is so pale that at first, writes Jeremy Tatum, I didn\u2019t recognize it as this species.<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiara <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiara <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiara <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Keith Taylor<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Another identification problem \u2013 Jochen sent two photographs of the June Beetle.\u00a0 <\/strong>(September is a little late!)\u00a0 I asked Scott Gilmore how I could distinguish between Polyphylla decemlineata<\/em><\/strong> and P. crinita.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Scott writes:\u00a0 Having chatted with Andrew Smith about this recently, I conclude that it is currently not possible. It is likely that everything on the island is crinita<\/em> but there is a bunch of genetic work needed to confirm species within this rather\u00a0confusing genus.<\/p>\n

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Polyphylla <\/em>(probably crinita<\/em>) (Col.: Scarabaeidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Polyphylla <\/em>(probably crinita<\/em>) (Col.: Scarabaeidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a spider photograph at night by Ian Cooper in Colquitz River Park, September 3.\u00a0 We thank Dr Robb Bennett for confirming Ian\u2019s identification:<\/p>\n

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Metellina<\/em> sp. (Ara.: Tetragnathidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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That night Ian made some interesting observations of a pair of Araneus diadematus.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Ian writes: I went for a pre-dawn photo shoot this morning and witnessed the mating drama of a male and female Araneus<\/em> diadematus<\/em> spiders in Colquitz River Park around 5 a.m. yesterday morning (2022 September\u00a0 3). This was by chance, as I happened to notice a small male in the vicinity of a much larger female that I’d just photographed in the middle of her web.\u00a0 Realizing this may be the beginning of a mating encounter, I stuck around to see what, if anything, would happen. Every so often, the female could be seen shaking vigorously in the centre of her web and I realized there were threads of silk connecting the two, as I could see he was also being shaken by the vibrations from some distance away. I\u2019m not sure which of the two was initiating \/ propagating the vibrations, or if they were both doing it, but the female shook much more intensely than the smaller male.\u00a0 It was intriguing to watch the drama play out.<\/p>\n

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2022 September 4 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We start today with three photographs of the unusual grey (rather than the usual brown) form of Neoalcis californiara, two from Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin today, and one from Keith Taylor in Victoria, August 31.\u00a0 Keith\u2019s is so pale that at first, writes Jeremy Tatum, I didn\u2019t recognize it as this […]<\/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-16528","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\/16528","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=16528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16537,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16528\/revisions\/16537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}