{"id":23094,"date":"2024-08-07T19:32:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T02:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23094"},"modified":"2024-08-07T19:32:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T02:32:15","slug":"2024-august-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23094","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 August 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Val George writes:\u00a0 This Palthis angulalis <\/em><\/strong>moth was on the wall of my Oak Bay house yesterday morning, August 6.<\/p>\n

\"\"Palthis angulalis\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Herminiinae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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On August 4, Ian Cooper took a series of photographs, along the Galloping Goose trail, of a dome spider Neriene <\/em>sp. <\/strong>working on her web, occasionally being pestered with intent by a male.<\/p>\n

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\nFemale dome spider – Neriene<\/em> sp. (Ara.: Linyphiidae ) \u00a0 Ian Cooper
\nShe was fiddling with a fir needle in her web for some unknown reason.<\/p>\n

\"\"Same individual, seen in its habitual spot in its dome web<\/p>\n

\"\"Enlargement of previous picture<\/p>\n

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\"\"I spotted this spider nearby and initially thought it was a random ‘other spider’ in the vicinity. Then realized it was stealthily approaching the dome web and it occurred to me that it may be a male dome spider making his approach to the female dome spider.<\/p>\n

\"\"Another view of the male, getting closer<\/p>\n

\"\"This one clearly shows the spider’s prominent male pedipalps, confirming it is indeed a male spider<\/p>\n

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2024 August 7 \u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0 This Palthis angulalis moth was on the wall of my Oak Bay house yesterday morning, August 6. Palthis angulalis\u00a0 (Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Herminiinae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper   On August 4, Ian Cooper took a series of photographs, along the Galloping Goose trail, of a dome spider Neriene sp. working […]<\/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-23094","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\/23094","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=23094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23097,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23094\/revisions\/23097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}