{"id":18109,"date":"2023-05-03T22:07:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18109"},"modified":"2023-05-03T22:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:26:44","slug":"2023-may-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18109","title":{"rendered":"2023 May 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 Three spiders photographed by Ian Cooper.\u00a0 The first two are jumping spiders (Salticidae)<\/b>, about which Thomas Barbin writes: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The first photo could be Pelegrina aeneola<\/i> or Metaphidippus manni<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t think you can tell the two apart from that angle.\u00a0 The second photo is a male Evarcha. \u00a0E. proszynskii <\/i><\/b>is the likely species here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jumping spider, species uncertain (Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Evarcha <\/i>(probably proszynskii<\/i>) (Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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

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\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 Today, May 3, at Beechey Head, there were three Western Pine Elfins<\/b> and one Western Brown Elfin<\/b>. At Aylard Farm there were three Western Spring Azures<\/b>.\u00a0 The Pine Elfins were on Lodgepole (\u201cShore\u201d) Pine and on Kinnikinnik (Bearberry) a short distance away.\u00a0 I’m sending a photo of a Pine Elfin on each plant. The Brown Elfin was only on Kinnikinnick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum remarks that Lodgepole Pine is the (only?) larval foodplant of the Western Pine Elfin, and that the obviously gravid female in the second picture below was probably ovipositing.\u00a0 Likewise, Kinniknnick is a larval foodplant of the Western Brown Elfin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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

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Western Pine Elfin Incisalia eryphon <\/i>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum reports a California Tortoiseshell<\/b> on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 5:30 pm today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  2023 May 3   \u00a0\u00a0 Three spiders photographed by Ian Cooper.\u00a0 The first two are jumping spiders (Salticidae), about which Thomas Barbin writes: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The first photo could be Pelegrina aeneola or Metaphidippus manni.\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t think you can tell the two apart from that angle.\u00a0 The second photo is a male Evarcha. \u00a0E. proszynskii […]<\/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-18109","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\/18109","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=18109"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18120,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18109\/revisions\/18120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}