{"id":2231,"date":"2016-04-24T17:49:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T01:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2016-04-24T18:57:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T01:57:36","slug":"april-24-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"April 24"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I found this bug on Mount Tolmie yesterday, April 23.  Thanks to Scott Gilmore for the identification:<\/p>\n

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\"\"Eurygaster <\/em>sp. (Hem.:  Scutelleridae)   Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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  Annie Pang photographed the highflyer moth below in her back porch in Victoria, April 23.   At present I’m labelling it Hydriomena <\/em>(probably marinata<\/em>), but we’ll see what other moth-ers think.<\/p>\n

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 Hydriomena <\/em>(probably marinata<\/em>) <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Hydriomena <\/em>(probably marinata<\/em>) <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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   Rosemary sends some high drama from Kemp Lake Road.  The spider is Misumena vatia<\/em><\/strong>. The caterpillar is a geometrid.  I can’t tell for sure beyond that, but I’d guess that there’s a very good chance that it is a pug of the genus Eupithecia<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Crab spider Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

The caterpillar is a geometrid, probably Eupithecia <\/em>sp.<\/p>\n

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   Rosemary sends a photograph of a ladybird beetle from Kemp Lake Road.  I was hoping it was something different, but, alas, Scott Gilmore tells me that it is just the familiar and ubiquitous Multicoloured Asian Ladybird Beetle Harmonia axyridis.<\/em>  <\/em>At any rate, it does illustrate how variable this beetle can be.  Scott writes:  I think this is the most variable insect I have ever seen. For a while I was thinking it was something different as well, as it does not have the "usual" head coloration. When I looked at it further it seemed that even those characters vary!<\/p>\n

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 Multicoloured Asian Ladybird Beetle Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae) <\/p>\n

Rosemary Jorna <\/p>\n

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2016 April 24      Jeremy Tatum writes:  I found this bug on Mount Tolmie yesterday, April 23.  Thanks to Scott Gilmore for the identification:   Eurygaster sp. (Hem.:  Scutelleridae)   Jeremy Tatum       Annie Pang photographed the highflyer moth below in her back porch in Victoria, April 23.   At present I’m labelling it […]<\/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-2231","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\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}