{"id":21086,"date":"2024-03-29T21:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21086"},"modified":"2024-03-29T21:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T04:00:51","slug":"2024-march-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21086","title":{"rendered":"2024 March 29"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 March 29<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ian Cooper sends photographs of a March Fly (also known as St Mark\u2019s Fly). \u00a0\u00a0Dr Rob Cannings writes: “This is a female of a species of Bibio<\/em>\u00a0(Diptera: Bibionidae). Known as March Flies (some appear in March). This is the only genus we have here in the family, but there are quite a few species and I can’t tell them apart without a microscope and a lot of trouble!<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the most abundant insects found in BC Eocene fossils are in the genus Plecia<\/em>\u00a0in the same family. Plecia <\/em>doesn’t get much farther north now than Florida, I think.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"Bibio <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Bibionidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Bibio <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Bibionidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs of two pug moths from Metchosin.\u00a0 They are clearly one of two similar species, Eupithecia ravocostaliata <\/em>or E. nevadata<\/em>.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum thinks probably E. ravocostaliata<\/em>, \u00a0but this is not a certain identification.\u00a0 They could be the other one.<\/p>\n

\"\"Eupithecia\u00a0 <\/em>(probably ravocostaliata<\/em>)\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\"\"Eupithecia\u00a0 <\/em>(probably ravocostaliata<\/em>)\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2024 March 29 \u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper sends photographs of a March Fly (also known as St Mark\u2019s Fly). \u00a0\u00a0Dr Rob Cannings writes: “This is a female of a species of Bibio\u00a0(Diptera: Bibionidae). Known as March Flies (some appear in March). This is the only genus we have here in the family, but there are quite […]<\/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-21086","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\/21086","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=21086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21088,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21086\/revisions\/21088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}