{"id":16665,"date":"2022-09-14T15:12:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16665"},"modified":"2022-09-14T15:17:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:17:33","slug":"2022-september-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16665","title":{"rendered":"2022 September 14"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 <\/strong>   <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes: Today, September 14, I found three  Woodland Skippers<\/strong> in the community garden at Gorge Park.  I heard from Geoffrey Newell today about some nice butterflies he found on September 9.  First of all he saw a Mourning Cloak<\/strong> at Esquimalt Lagoon and then he saw three Pine Whites<\/strong> at Witty’s Lagoon.<\/p>\n

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  <\/strong>Here is a harvestman<\/strong>, photographed by Ian Cooper and kindly identified for us by Dr Philip Bragg:<\/p>\n

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Leptobunus parvulus <\/em>(Opiliones: Phalangiidae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Leptobunus parvulus <\/em>(Opiliones: Phalangiidae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Ian Cooper photographed a Drone Fly Eristalis tenax <\/em><\/strong>at Colquitz River Park, September  8.  Viewers might like to compare it with the somewhat similar E. arbustorum,<\/em> shown on August 24 evening.<\/p>\n

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Eristalis tenax <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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   Ian photographed a male and a female Common (European)<\/strong> Earwig<\/strong>.  Note the shape of the pincers.<\/p>\n

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Male Common Earwig Forficula auricularia <\/em>(Derm.: Forficulidae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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emale Common Earwig Forficula auricularia <\/em>(Derm.: Forficulidae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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   Ian also photographed this Triangle Spider <\/strong>in Colquitz River Park, September 10:<\/p>\n

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Hyptiotes gertschi  <\/em>(Ara.:  Uloboridae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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       Also an unidentified geometrid caterpillar:<\/p>\n

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Unknown geometrid caterpillar (Lep.: Geometridae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2022 September 14     Jeff Gaskin writes: Today, September 14, I found three  Woodland Skippers in the community garden at Gorge Park.  I heard from Geoffrey Newell today about some nice butterflies he found on September 9.  First of all he saw a Mourning Cloak at Esquimalt Lagoon and then he saw three Pine Whites […]<\/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-16665","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\/16665","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=16665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}