{"id":20550,"date":"2023-12-08T21:29:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T05:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20550"},"modified":"2023-12-08T21:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T05:29:40","slug":"2023-december-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20550","title":{"rendered":"2023 December 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 December 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <u>New invertebrate species for Canada<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On November 17 Charlene Wood examined under a microscope some aphid-like insects on a Bay Laurel <em>Laurus nobilis<\/em> in her garden. She suspected that they were <strong>Bay Suckers <em>Lauritrioza alacris <\/em>\u2013 <\/strong>a species of the Family Triozidae, related to the aphids.\u00a0 This Mediterranean species had not been previously reported from Canada, so we delayed posting news of it until it was formally confirmed (as it has now been) by Dr Bob Foottit, aphid expert (retired) from the Canadian National Collection.\u00a0 As its English name suggests, it sucks juice from the Bay Laurel, and forms galls there.\u00a0 It probably came to Canada <em>via<\/em> the USA, where it had previously been found.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20548 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugs-l2-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugs-l2-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugs-l2-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugs-l2-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugs-l2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/>Adult female <em>Lauritrioza alacris\u00a0 <\/em>(Hem.: Triozidae)\u00a0 Charlene Wood<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20547 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugs-d3small-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugs-d3small-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugs-d3small-768x581.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugs-d3small.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/>Adult female <em>Lauritrioza alacris\u00a0 <\/em>(Hem.: Triozidae)\u00a0 Charlene Wood<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20549 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugslatS3-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugslatS3-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugslatS3-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231117_laurelbugslatS3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/>Nymphs of <em>Lauritrioza alacris\u00a0 <\/em>(Hem.: Triozidae)\u00a0 Charlene Wood<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 December 8 \u00a0\u00a0 New invertebrate species for Canada On November 17 Charlene Wood examined under a microscope some aphid-like insects on a Bay Laurel Laurus nobilis in her garden. She suspected that they were Bay Suckers Lauritrioza alacris \u2013 a species of the Family Triozidae, related to the aphids.\u00a0 This Mediterranean species had not [&hellip;]<\/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-20550","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\/20550","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=20550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20551,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20550\/revisions\/20551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}