{"id":18125,"date":"2023-05-04T21:06:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T04:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18125"},"modified":"2023-05-08T09:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T16:23:18","slug":"2023-may-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18125","title":{"rendered":"2023 May 4 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two more ladybird beetles from Ian Cooper – one with no spots, and one with lots of
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Cycloneda polita<\/span><\/i> (Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n

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Harmonia axyridis\u00a0 <\/i>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Ian also photographed a pair of crab spiders (identified by Dr Robb Bennett as Xysticus<\/i>,
\nprobably cristatus<\/i>), with the female apparently eating the male after a mating attempt by the male.\u00a0 As Dr Bennett puts it:\u00a0 I think this is the aftermath of a love affair gone bad.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Xysticus <\/i>(probably cristatus<\/i>)\u00a0 (Ara.: Thomisidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper (no relation!) photographed an early dragonfly on Observatory Hill today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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California Darner Rhionaeschna californica\u00a0 <\/i>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 May 4 evening   Two more ladybird beetles from Ian Cooper – one with no spots, and one with lots of spots.   Cycloneda polita (Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper Harmonia axyridis\u00a0 (Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper \u00a0\u00a0 Ian also photographed a pair of crab spiders (identified by Dr Robb Bennett as Xysticus, probably cristatus), with […]<\/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-18125","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\/18125","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=18125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18171,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18125\/revisions\/18171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}