{"id":20882,"date":"2024-02-29T21:39:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T05:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20882"},"modified":"2024-03-02T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T00:25:00","slug":"2024-february-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20882","title":{"rendered":"2024 February 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 February 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>More miscellaneous invertebrates by Ian Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The conspicuous dark-bordered pale dorsal stripe on the caterpillar below is more pronounced than is usual for <em>Noctua pronuba<\/em>, so it may be something else \u2013 nevertheless I am fairly certain that it is indeed <em>N. pronuba<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20879 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pronuba-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pronuba-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pronuba-988x1024.jpg 988w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pronuba-768x796.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pronuba.jpg 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/>Probably <em>Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy writes, of the fly below:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what species this is.\u00a0 In spite of its short antennae, I think it is of the group Nematocera (thread-horns) \u2013 a female (the males usually have longer and more ornate antennae).\u00a0 If anyone knows what it is, please do let us know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20876 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fly-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fly-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fly-1024x868.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fly-768x651.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fly.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/>Unidentified fly (Dip.: probably Nematocera)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20880 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/slug-1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/slug-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/slug-1-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/slug-1-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/slug-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><em>Deroceras reticulatum\u00a0 <\/em>(Pul.:\u00a0 Agriolimacidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Frans Janssen tells us that the springtail below is a new, undescribed, species of <em>Ptenothrix<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20878 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/glob-2-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/glob-2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/glob-2-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/glob-2-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/glob-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/>Globose springtail,\u00a0 <em>Ptenothrix\u00a0<\/em> sp. nov. (Coll.: Dicyrtomenidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20877 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/glob-1-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/glob-1-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/glob-1-1024x759.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/glob-1-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/glob-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/>Globose springtail, <em>Ptenothrix\u00a0<\/em> sp. nov.\u00a0 (Coll.: Dicyrtomenidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/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>2024 February 29 \u00a0 More miscellaneous invertebrates by Ian Cooper. Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The conspicuous dark-bordered pale dorsal stripe on the caterpillar below is more pronounced than is usual for Noctua pronuba, so it may be something else \u2013 nevertheless I am fairly certain that it is indeed N. pronuba. Probably Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 [&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-20882","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\/20882","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=20882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20906,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20882\/revisions\/20906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}