{"id":21732,"date":"2024-05-31T19:21:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T02:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21732"},"modified":"2024-05-31T19:21:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T02:21:15","slug":"2024-may-31-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21732","title":{"rendered":"2024 May 31 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 May 31 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ian Cooper photographed this tiny wasp at his home in Victoria. \u00a0There are hundreds, if not thousands, of parasitoidal wasps in the families Ichneumonidae,\u00a0 Braconidae, and some related families.\u00a0 Identification is a challenge, but, writes Jeremy Tatum, I agree with Ian that this is a braconid, and in the subfamily Microgastrinae:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21730 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC04373cs-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC04373cs-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC04373cs-1024x817.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC04373cs-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC04373cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/>Parasitoidal wasp (Hym.: \u00a0Braconidae \u2013 Microgastrinae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ian also photographed this dead <em>Antrodiaetus pacificus<\/em>.\u00a0 Ian would like to acquire a suitable microscope that would enable him to make scierntifically valuable drawings of some of the creatures that he finds.\u00a0 Suggestions, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21731 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC04380cs-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC04380cs-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC04380cs-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC04380cs-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSC04380cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><em>Antrodiaetus pacificus\u00a0 <\/em>(Ara.: Antrodiaetidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 May 31 evening \u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper photographed this tiny wasp at his home in Victoria. \u00a0There are hundreds, if not thousands, of parasitoidal wasps in the families Ichneumonidae,\u00a0 Braconidae, and some related families.\u00a0 Identification is a challenge, but, writes Jeremy Tatum, I agree with Ian that this is a braconid, and in the subfamily [&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-21732","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\/21732","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=21732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21733,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21732\/revisions\/21733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}