{"id":2155,"date":"2016-04-19T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2016-04-28T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:12:37","slug":"april-19-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2155","title":{"rendered":"April 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 April 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Annie Pang sends a photograph of <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>Harmonia axyridis <\/em><\/strong><strong>&#8211; <\/strong>a species introduced from Asia into both North America and Europe, and now one of our most-often encountered <strong>ladybird beetles<\/strong>.\u00a0 It has been given so many names that I (that\u2019s Jeremy Tatum) have taken to calling it the \u201cMany-named Ladybird Beetle\u201d, although it is more often called the \u201cMulti-coloured Asian Ladybird Beetle\u201d.\u00a0 The spotting is variable.\u00a0 I usually recognize it by the black <strong>W<\/strong> on its thorax.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"annie ladybird2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/annie-ladybird2.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"567.4956521739131\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a typical double-humped cocoon of a plutellid moth, found on Snowberry at Mount Douglas Beach Park, April 19.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"castella cocoon.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/castella-cocoon.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"514.5466666666666\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Euceratia securella <\/em>(Lep.: \u00a0Plutellidae) \u00a0 \u00a0Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 He continues:\u00a0 There were two <strong>California Tortoiseshells <\/strong>and a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 4:30 pm. April 19.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 April 19 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang sends a photograph of \u00a0Harmonia axyridis &#8211; a species introduced from Asia into both North America and Europe, and now one of our most-often encountered ladybird beetles.\u00a0 It has been given so many names that I (that\u2019s Jeremy Tatum) have taken to calling it the \u201cMany-named Ladybird Beetle\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","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\/2155","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}