{"id":21104,"date":"2024-03-31T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T00:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21104"},"modified":"2024-03-31T17:38:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T00:38:15","slug":"2024-march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21104","title":{"rendered":"2024 March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 March 31<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/strong>Here are photographs of two Grey Field Slugs, one photographed by Ian Cooper at Colquitz River Park on March 29, and the other, of a slightly unusual colour, by Aziza Cooper on Mount Tolmie, March 27.<\/p>\n

\"\"Deroceras reticulatum <\/em>(Pul.: Agriolimacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Deroceras reticulatum <\/em>(Pul.: Agriolimacidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Here are further recent photographs of invertebrates by Ian Cooper:<\/p>\n

\"\"Lauria cylindracea\u00a0 <\/em>(Pul.: Lauriidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Harvestman (Opiliones)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Harvestman (Opiliones)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Armadillidium vulgare<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0(Isopoda: \u00a0Armidillidiidae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Camel cricket, possibly Pristoceuthophilus celatus<\/em>\u00a0(Orth.: Rhaphidophoridae)
\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n

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Aziza Cooper writes:
\nYesterday, March 30, a moth was in my house. Today, March 31, one Western Spring Azure<\/strong> was in front of the Swan Lake Nature House. Two Mourning Cloaks<\/strong> were seen on the trails at Swan Lake.<\/p>\n

Today, March 31, Jeremy Tatum saw two Western Spring Azures <\/strong>at Swan Lake, and a Mourning Cloak <\/strong>and a California Tortoiseshell <\/strong>on the Mount Tolmie reservoir.\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin reports a Mourning Cloak <\/strong>today at the corner of Wascana Street and Gorge Road West.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Nomenia obsoleta<\/em>\/Venusia pearsalli\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep. Geometridae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

For a long time we (Invert Alert) have had difficulty in distinguishing between the similar Venusia obsoleta\u00a0 <\/em>and V. pearsalli<\/em>, and we have been sort of hoping that the taxonomists might one day lump them as one species.\u00a0 Alas, they went the other way, and they are now in separate genera, as you see from the label to the above photograph.\u00a0 And we still can\u2019t tell them apart!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 March 31 \u00a0 Here are photographs of two Grey Field Slugs, one photographed by Ian Cooper at Colquitz River Park on March 29, and the other, of a slightly unusual colour, by Aziza Cooper on Mount Tolmie, March 27. Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper Deroceras reticulatum (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper   Here are […]<\/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-21104","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\/21104","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=21104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21106,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104\/revisions\/21106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}