{"id":19038,"date":"2023-06-25T19:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T02:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19038"},"modified":"2023-06-25T19:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T02:03:15","slug":"2023-june-25-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19038","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 25 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 June 25<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ian Cooper sends photographs of a spider and a harvestman from Colquitz River Park, June 21.<\/p>\n

\"\"Steatoda <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Protolophus <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Opiliones:\u00a0 Protolophidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Protolophus <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Opiliones:\u00a0 Protolophidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Ian also photographed some creatures from near the 9 km mark along the Galloping Goose Trail, View Royal.\u00a0 He writes:<\/p>\n

This encounter between two pillbugs appears to be either a mating or predatory encounter. Not sure. The darker one was grappling with the lighter one, which was mostly curled up in a defensive ball, but it would also open up somewhat. The encounter was still happening when I returned 10 minutes later.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Common Pillbug\u00a0 Armadillidium vulgare
\n<\/em> (Isopoda: \u00a0Armidillidiidae)
\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Common Pillbug\u00a0 Armadillidium vulgare
\n<\/em> (Isopoda: \u00a0Armidillidiidae)
\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n

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In the interests of science, Ian allowed this mosquito to land on his left hand while he took a photograph.\u00a0 There is probably someone on Vancouver Island who can identify this one to species.\u00a0 Please let us know if that is you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Mosquito (Dip.: Culicidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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The Squire\u2019s daughter has been foully murdered.<\/p>\n

Murdered?\u00a0 By whom?<\/p>\n

By Amos<\/p>\n

Amos who?<\/p>\n

Amos Quito<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum spotted these two caterpillars today on a birch tree in the busiest part of the Saanich Centre shopping area.\u00a0 They are caterpillars of the Vapourer Moth<\/strong>, also known as the Rusty Tussock.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Tussock moths (Lymantriinae) are named from their caterpillars, which bear characteristic tussocks of hair, which look a little like toothbrush bristles.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\"\"<\/em>Orgyia antiqua <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Erebidae \u2013 Lymantriinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\"\"Orgyia antiqua <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Erebidae \u2013 Lymantriinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 June 25 \u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper sends photographs of a spider and a harvestman from Colquitz River Park, June 21. Steatoda sp.\u00a0 (Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper   Protolophus sp.\u00a0 (Opiliones:\u00a0 Protolophidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper   Protolophus sp.\u00a0 (Opiliones:\u00a0 Protolophidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper   Ian also photographed some creatures from near the 9 km mark along the Galloping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19038","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\/19038","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19039,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19038\/revisions\/19039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}