{"id":20563,"date":"2023-12-12T22:11:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T06:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20563"},"modified":"2023-12-22T17:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T01:55:55","slug":"2023-december-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20563","title":{"rendered":"2023 December 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 December 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George sends a photograph of an <strong><em>Erannis <\/em>sp. <\/strong>at Swan Lake, December 11.\u00a0 The reddish hue arises from a nearby lamp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20560 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Erannis-vancouverensis-5-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Erannis-vancouverensis-5-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Erannis-vancouverensis-5-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Erannis-vancouverensis-5-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Erannis-vancouverensis-5.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><em>Erannis defoliaria<\/em>\/<em>vancouverensis\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs of insects posing challenging identification problems, from Metchosin, December 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 The first is a <strong>Green Lacewing. \u00a0<\/strong>Lacewing expert Dr Cara Gibson comments that it\u2019s a beautiful photograph of a beautiful animal, but professional caution says that she needs to examine some tiny detail more closely before identification at the species level \u2013 so we\u2019ll leave it at Family level, (Chrysopidae).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20561 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020075-crop-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020075-crop-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020075-crop-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020075-crop-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020075-crop.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/> Green Lacewing (Neu.: Chrysopidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are not sure, writes Jeremy Tatum, whether the second insect is a small crane fly (Tipulidae) or a winter gnat\u00a0 (Trichoceridae), so we\u2019ll have to leave it as either\/or for now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20562 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020078-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020078-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020078-1024x836.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020078-768x627.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/P1020078.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/>Crane fly (Tipulidae) or winter gnat (Trichoceridae) (Diptera)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 December 13 \u00a0\u00a0 Val George sends a photograph of an Erannis sp. at Swan Lake, December 11.\u00a0 The reddish hue arises from a nearby lamp. Erannis defoliaria\/vancouverensis\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs of insects posing challenging identification problems, from Metchosin, December 11. \u00a0\u00a0 The first is a Green Lacewing. \u00a0Lacewing [&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-20563","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\/20563","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=20563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20572,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20563\/revisions\/20572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}