{"id":24234,"date":"2024-11-19T20:43:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T04:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24234"},"modified":"2024-11-19T22:14:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T06:14:17","slug":"2024-november-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24234","title":{"rendered":"2024 November 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 November 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0 I made a point of riding to Colquitz River Park and View Royal for a photoshoot overnight to &#8216;seize the opportunity&#8217; to take pictures ahead of the approaching windstorm that&#8217;s expected to wreak havoc later today and Wednesday. Despite the forecast calling for 60% showers and donning my raingear, I wasn&#8217;t rained on at all over the entire 4 1\/2 hour outing, although it had obviously showered before I left James Bay out around 2:30 am. It was cool out; there was frost on the Selkirk Trestle on the way to Colquitz, but I was well insulated with multiple layers.<\/p>\n<p>All pictures are from my overnight photo shoot at *Colquitz River Park\u00a0and # View Royal on November 19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24233 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2403cs-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2403cs-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2403cs-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2403cs-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2403cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/># Crane fly larva &#8211; a \u201cleatherjacket\u201d, most likely <em>Tipula paludosa<\/em>\u00a0(Dip.: Tipulidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24231 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2348cs-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2348cs-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2348cs-1024x861.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2348cs-768x646.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2348cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/># <em>Ptenothrix maculosa olympia<\/em>\u00a0(Coll.: Symphypleona \u2013 Dicyrtomidae) \u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24229 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2282c-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2282c-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2282c-1024x822.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2282c-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2282c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/>* <em>Arion hortensis<\/em>\u00a0(Pul.: Arionidae) \u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24232 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2394c-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2394c-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2394c-1024x886.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2394c-768x664.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2394c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/># Harvestman \u00a0<em>Leptobunus parvulus<\/em>\u00a0(Opiliones: Phalangiidae)<br \/>\nwith its captured prey &#8211; a Longneck Field Slug <em>Deroceras invadens<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0(Pul.: Agriolimacidae)<br \/>\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24230 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2329cs-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2329cs-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2329cs-1024x790.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2329cs-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2329cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/># Crab spider \u00a0<em>Xysticus cristatus<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Thomisidae) \u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24228 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2271c-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2271c-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2271c-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2271c-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2271c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/>Large Yellow Underwing \u00a0<em>Noctua pronuba<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0(Lep.: Noctuidae) \u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 November 19 Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0 I made a point of riding to Colquitz River Park and View Royal for a photoshoot overnight to &#8216;seize the opportunity&#8217; to take pictures ahead of the approaching windstorm that&#8217;s expected to wreak havoc later today and Wednesday. Despite the forecast calling for 60% showers and donning my raingear, [&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-24234","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\/24234","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=24234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24238,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24234\/revisions\/24238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}