{"id":21435,"date":"2024-05-05T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21435"},"modified":"2024-05-06T19:15:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T02:15:44","slug":"2024-may-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21435","title":{"rendered":"2024 May 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 May 5
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\u00a0 <\/strong>Gordon Hart sends photographs of a Painted Lady <\/strong>butterfly and a Bumble Bee from Mount Tolmie, May 4.\u00a0 We thank Steven Roias for identifying the bumble bee as a queen Bombus fervidus californicus<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\"\"Painted Lady Vanessa cardui\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

\"\"Queen Bombus fervidus californicus\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Ian Cooper sends a photograph of a chironomid midge carrying two water mite larvae.\u00a0 Dr Heather Proctor writes:\u00a0 Indeed, a chironomid, sporting a couple of parasitic water mite larvae (Prostigmata: Hydrachnidiae). I can’t identify them any more finely than that, as members of a few water mite superfamilies have chironomids as hosts.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Non-biting midge (Dip.: Chironomidae) with
\nparasitic water mite larvae (Prostigmata: Hydrachnidiae)
\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n

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Ian also sends photographs of two beetles and a springtail.\u00a0 We thank Scott Gilmore for confirming Ian\u2019s correct tentative identification of the beetles.\u00a0\u00a0 Like the midge above, one of the beetles carries two mites.\u00a0 Dr Proctor says Order Mesostigmata.\u00a0 The beetle is a snail-eating beetle, although on this occasion it is having earthworm for supper.<\/p>\n

\"\"Scaphinotus angusticollis <\/em>(Col.: Carabidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Left: Hairy Spider Weevil Barypeithes pellucidus <\/em>(Col.: Curculionidae)
\nRight:\u00a0 Globose springtail, probably Ptenothrix <\/em>sp. (Coll.: Dicyrtomidae)
\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n

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Two more from Ian \u2013 a spider and a slug.\u00a0 First,\u00a0 a folding-door spider at its burrow entrance – Antrodiaetus pacificus<\/em>\u00a0(Mygalomorphae)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Antrodiaetus pacificus<\/em>\u00a0(Ara. \u2013 Myg:\u00a0\u00a0 Antrodiaetidae)<\/p>\n

\"\"Arion subfuscus <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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2024 May 5 \u00a0 Gordon Hart sends photographs of a Painted Lady butterfly and a Bumble Bee from Mount Tolmie, May 4.\u00a0 We thank Steven Roias for identifying the bumble bee as a queen Bombus fervidus californicus. \u00a0Painted Lady Vanessa cardui\u00a0 (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart Queen Bombus fervidus californicus\u00a0 (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart   Ian […]<\/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-21435","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\/21435","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=21435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21440,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435\/revisions\/21440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}