{"id":18095,"date":"2023-05-02T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T02:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18095"},"modified":"2023-05-02T20:19:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T03:19:34","slug":"2023-may-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18095","title":{"rendered":"2023 May 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper sends a photograph , from the Galloping Goose Trail at Harriet Road, of a crab
\nspider that not all viewers may immediately recognize as Misumena vatia<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0 But that indeed is what it is.\u00a0 It is a male, and very different in appearance from the familiar female.\u00a0 [See April 30 morning for a female.]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Male Misumena vatia\u00a0 <\/i>(Ara.: Thomisidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 The spider below is from the Family Philodromidae, known as \u201crunning crab spiders\u201d.\u00a0 Not to be confused with just \u201ccrab spiders\u201d of the Family Thomisidae.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tibellus oblongus<\/span><\/i> (Ara.: Philodromidae)<\/span>\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 And now, also from the Galloping Goose Trail at View Royal, three ladybirds with different numbers of spots:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Two-spotted Lady Beetle Adalia bipunctata <\/i>(Col.: Coccinellidae)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Seven-spotted Lady Beetle\u00a0 Coccinella septempunctata<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

(Col.: Coccinellidae)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle Calvia quatuordecimguttata\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

(Col.: Coccinellidae)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 I failed Latin, writes Jeremy Tatum, but I seem to remember that the Latin for 14 is
\nquattuordecim.\u00a0\u00a0 The \u201ccorrect\u201d spelling of a scientific name is supposed to be the spelling that the author used, rightly or wrongly, in the original scientific description of an organism.\u00a0 Well, apparently Linnaeus spelled it 14-punctata, which doesn\u2019t help.\u00a0 We are not supposed to use numbers in scientific names these days, so, somewhere along the line, someone presumably substituted \u201cquatuordecim\u201d for \u201c14\u201d \u2013 and the misspelling has stuck.\u00a0 We are not
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\u00a0\u00a0 Today, May 2,\u00a0 Aziza Cooper found two or more Western Brown Elfins <\/b>on the blackberry bushes below the Mount Tolmie reservoir on the side opposite to the road.\u00a0\u00a0 And she and Jeremy Tatum saw four or five Mourning Cloaks <\/b>along Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake, as well as a Western Spring Azure <\/b>and a Satyr Comma<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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2023 May 2   \u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper sends a photograph , from the Galloping Goose Trail at Harriet Road, of a crab spider that not all viewers may immediately recognize as Misumena vatia.\u00a0\u00a0 But that indeed is what it is.\u00a0 It is a male, and very different in appearance from the familiar female.\u00a0 [See April […]<\/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-18095","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\/18095","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=18095"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18107,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18095\/revisions\/18107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}