{"id":19908,"date":"2023-08-24T08:17:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19908"},"modified":"2023-08-26T14:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T21:09:53","slug":"2023-august-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19908","title":{"rendered":"2023 August 24 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 August 24 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ian Cooper sends a selection of photographs.\u00a0 All were taken by the *E&N Trail, @Colquitz River Park and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal on July 22 – 28 2023.<\/p>\n

\"\" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/em>Harvestman (Opi.: Phalangiidae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

We had originally wrongly identified this harvestman, and we are indebted to David Harris, of Sussex, England, for pointing out that it more closely resembles Mitopus morio <\/em>than our original label.\u00a0 Since, however, it also bears some resemblance to Phalangium opilio<\/em>, we referred it to harvestman authority Dr Philip Bragg.\u00a0 His reply illustrates the difficulties that can arise in trying to identify similar organisms.\u00a0 He writes:\u00a0 The overall appearance is like Mitopus morio and yet a bit like Phalangium opilio. I favour the former.\u00a0 The feature which would distinguish between Mitopus and Phalangium is not clear enough in the photo, which generally is very good. There is a supracheliceral lamella in Phalangium which bears a pair of tubercles. I cannot tell if these are present for not.<\/em><\/p>\n

We shall therefore leave it there!<\/p>\n

\"\"*Eristalinus aeneus <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"@Pristoceuthophilus sp.<\/em> (Orth.: Rhaphidophoridae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"#Philoscia muscorum <\/em>(Isopoda: Oniscidae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"#Camponotus modoc <\/em>(Hym.: Formicidae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"#Myathropa florea <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Val George writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, August 23, I checked out the nature house at Goldstream Park. There were were just two moths there: Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong> and Dysstroma sobria<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Neoalcis californiaria\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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\"\"Dysstroma sobria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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2023 August 24 morning \u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper sends a selection of photographs.\u00a0 All were taken by the *E&N Trail, @Colquitz River Park and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal on July 22 – 28 2023. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *Harvestman (Opi.: Phalangiidae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper We had originally wrongly identified this harvestman, and we are indebted to […]<\/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-19908","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\/19908","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=19908"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19966,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908\/revisions\/19966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}