{"id":1946,"date":"2016-03-19T18:08:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T02:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2016-03-19T19:08:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T02:08:57","slug":"march-19-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1946","title":{"rendered":"March 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 March 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum sends photographs of two insects from his Saanich apartment this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 423px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"423\" setheight=\"275\" originalheight=\"779\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Anthrenus verbasci.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Anthrenus-verbasci.jpg\"><br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Anthrenus verbasci <\/em>(Col.: Dermestidae)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"331\" setheight=\"497\" style=\"width: 331px; height: 497px;\" originalheight=\"1200\" originalwidth=\"800\" name=\"\" title=\"E curialis.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/E-curialis.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira curialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Val George reports his first butterfly of the year &#8211; a <strong>Mourning Cloak  <\/strong>on Mount Douglas, yesterday, March 18.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a spider from her garden in Kemp Lake Road, March 17.&nbsp; Thanks to Robb Bennett for identifying it for us.&nbsp; He writes:&nbsp; A classic  <strong><em>Pardosa <\/em><\/strong><strong>wolf spider<\/strong> &#8211; high head and relatively long and spindly legs. Usually difficult to identify from photographs, but I think the image is of  <em><strong>Pardosa vancouveri<\/strong><\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em><em>&#8211;<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em>it is the most common dark  <em>Pardosa <\/em>around here at this time of year. Other genera of wolf spiders in our area are usually more heavy-bodied and with thicker head and lower heads.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"873\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Kemp Lake rd.jpg\" height=\"433.59\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Kemp-Lake-rd.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\"><em>Pardosa vancouveri  <\/em>(Ara.: Lycosidae)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 March 19 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum sends photographs of two insects from his Saanich apartment this morning. &nbsp; Anthrenus verbasci (Col.: Dermestidae)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum Egira curialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum &nbsp; &nbsp; Val George reports his first butterfly of the year &#8211; a Mourning Cloak on Mount Douglas, yesterday, March 18. &nbsp; &nbsp; Rosemary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","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\/1946","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=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}