{"id":21534,"date":"2024-05-13T22:35:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T05:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21534"},"modified":"2024-05-13T22:56:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T05:56:48","slug":"2024-may-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21534","title":{"rendered":"2024 May 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 May 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Here is a photograph of a slug taken by Ian Cooper at Colquitz River Park.\u00a0 We are grateful to Robert Forsyth for confirming that it is almost certainly <em>Ambigolimax valentianus<\/em>.\u00a0 \u201cAlmost certainly\u201d , because \u201cthere is always the chance that it is another <em>Ambigolimax<\/em>, such as <em>A. parvipenis<\/em>, which is in California\u201d, but which cannot easily be distinguished externally.\u00a0 \u201cIt is not yet known from BC, but it is widespread in California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21533 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC03583cs-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC03583cs-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC03583cs-895x1024.jpg 895w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC03583cs-768x879.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC03583cs.jpg 1049w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><em>Ambigolimax valentianus\u00a0 <\/em>(Pul.: Limacidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ian also photographed this noctuid caterpillar, whose identity we have not yet determined.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21532 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC03784c-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC03784c-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC03784c-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC03784c-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC03784c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>Unidentified caterpillar\u00a0 (Lep.: Noctuidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 \u00a0Today, May 13, there was one <strong>California Ringlet<\/strong> at Viaduct Flats.\u00a0 It was in the grassy field just north of Markham Road.\u00a0 Also, at the flats were one <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> and a few <strong>Western Spring Azures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 May 13 \u00a0\u00a0 Here is a photograph of a slug taken by Ian Cooper at Colquitz River Park.\u00a0 We are grateful to Robert Forsyth for confirming that it is almost certainly Ambigolimax valentianus.\u00a0 \u201cAlmost certainly\u201d , because \u201cthere is always the chance that it is another Ambigolimax, such as A. parvipenis, which is in [&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-21534","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\/21534","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=21534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21538,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21534\/revisions\/21538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}