{"id":24030,"date":"2024-11-02T17:21:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T00:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24030"},"modified":"2024-11-02T17:21:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T00:21:47","slug":"2024-november-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24030","title":{"rendered":"2024 November 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 November 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes that several European <strong>Winter Moths <\/strong>were at his Saanich apartment building this morning.\u00a0 The wing patterns of some Winter Moths are rather bland and featureless (see, for example, October 18); the one below is rather well marked:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24023 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/O-brumata-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/O-brumata-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/O-brumata-811x1024.jpg 811w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/O-brumata-768x970.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/O-brumata.jpg 859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/>Winter Moth <em>Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are six more from Ian Cooper, October 31.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a very tiny insect, almost certainly a hymenopterous parasitic wasp, which spends its entire immature stages growing inside the egg of another insect, possibly in company with several brothers and sisters.\u00a0 This one may be parasitoidal in the eggs of a bug, and is possibly <strong><em>Trissolcus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24025 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111166cs-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111166cs-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111166cs-1024x879.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111166cs-768x659.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111166cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/em><\/strong>Possibly <em>Trissolcus <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Scelionidae \u2013 Telenomoninae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111173c-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111173c-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111173c-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111173c-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111173c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><br \/>\nMale <em>Linyphiid<\/em>\u00a0spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24024 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111145cs-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111145cs-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111145cs-1024x914.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111145cs-768x685.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111145cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><em>Rugathodes sexpunctatus<\/em>\u00a0 (Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24027 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111175c-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111175c-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111175c-1024x798.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111175c-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111175c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/>Snail-eating Beetle &#8211; <em>Scaphinotus angusticollis<\/em>\u00a0(Col.: Carabidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24028 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111248cs-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111248cs-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111248cs-1024x870.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111248cs-768x652.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111248cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/>Globose springtail, <em>Dicyrtomina ornata <\/em>f.<em>\u00a0saundersi<\/em>\u00a0(Collembola \u2013 Symphypleona \u2013 Dicyrtomidae)<br \/>\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24029\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111271c-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111271c-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111271c-1024x987.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111271c-768x740.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11111271c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><em><br \/>\nDeroceras invadens<\/em>\u00a0 (Pul.: Agriolimacidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 November 2 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes that several European Winter Moths were at his Saanich apartment building this morning.\u00a0 The wing patterns of some Winter Moths are rather bland and featureless (see, for example, October 18); the one below is rather well marked: &nbsp; Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum &nbsp; Here [&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-24030","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\/24030","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=24030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24033,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030\/revisions\/24033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}