{"id":21158,"date":"2024-04-05T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T01:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21158"},"modified":"2024-04-05T18:34:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T01:34:42","slug":"2024-april-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21158","title":{"rendered":"2024 April 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2024 April 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes: Today, April 5th, there were two Mourning Cloaks<\/strong> at Panama Flats.\u00a0 I saw one with Les Peterson in the south-east end of the flats and Les saw the other one by the gravel trail next to Interurban Road.<\/p>\n

Val George writes:\u00a0 This Drepanulatrix<\/em>\u00a0moth (secundaria<\/em>? monicaria<\/em>?) was on the wall of my Oak Bay house this morning, April 5. \u00a0 Jeremy Tatum agrees:\u00a0 Yes, I can\u2019t tell the difference between monicaria <\/em>\u00a0and secundaria<\/em>, either, though this one does look a lot like monicaria.\u00a0 <\/em>It\u2019s a male, anyway \u2013 see the bipectinate antennae.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Drepanulatrix monicaria<\/em>\/secundaria <\/em>\u00a0(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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Here are more miscellanea from Ian Cooper.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing, the number of creatures under our feet that most of us never notice. \u00a0\u00a0Thanks to Robert Forsyth, Heather Proctor, Robb Bennett for help with the identification of the slugs\/snail, mite, spider, respectively.<\/p>\n

First, a Leopard Slug.\u00a0 Compare this unspotted variety with the very spotted one shown on April 2.\u00a0 Is the April 2 one what gave Rudyard Kipling the inspiration for How the Leopard Got His Spots?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Limax maximus <\/em>(Pul.: Limacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Another pair of slugs below in a tender moment. Labelled Deroceras panorbitanum\u00a0<\/em>in earlier photographs in this site of this species,\u00a0 Robert Forsyth tells us that recent work has led to the recognition that P. panorbitanum <\/em>is a Sicilian endemic, and the species that we have here is P. invadens.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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\"\"<\/strong>Vespericola columbianus\u00a0 <\/em>(Pul.:\u00a0 Polygyridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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If anyone is unsure about the statement that millepedes have two pairs of legs on each segment, have a look at the millepede below.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Flat millepede Scytonotus sp<\/em>. (Diplopoda: \u00a0Polydesmidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/strong>Velvet Mite\u00a0 (Acari: \u00a0Trombidiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/strong>Female linyphiine spider (Ara.: \u00a0Linyphiidae \u2013 Linyphiinae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 2024 April 5 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes: Today, April 5th, there were two Mourning Cloaks at Panama Flats.\u00a0 I saw one with Les Peterson in the south-east end of the flats and Les saw the other one by the gravel trail next to Interurban Road. Val George writes:\u00a0 This Drepanulatrix\u00a0moth (secundaria? monicaria?) was on […]<\/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-21158","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\/21158","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=21158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21161,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158\/revisions\/21161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}