{"id":24503,"date":"2025-01-07T17:58:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T01:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24503"},"modified":"2025-01-07T21:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:39:10","slug":"2025-january-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=24503","title":{"rendered":"2025 January 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2025 January 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Here are two more photographs from Ian Cooper\u2019s 2024 January 5 photoshoot:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24502 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11110069ccs-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11110069ccs-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11110069ccs-1024x841.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11110069ccs-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11110069ccs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/>Lady Beetle <em>Calvia quatuordecimguttata<\/em>\u00a0(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Also in the picture is a globose springtail, which would be well advised to stay out of the way of the lady beetle.\u00a0 If I remember my Latin correctly (writes Jeremy Tatum), XIV is spelled quattuordecim, with two ts.\u00a0 But, if the first person to describe and name a species new to science spells it wrongly, the name given must stick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24500 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11110098-cs-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11110098-cs-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11110098-cs-1024x821.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11110098-cs-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/11110098-cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><em>Linyphiid<\/em>\u00a0spider (Ara.: Linyphiidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Globose springtails should also keep out of the way of linyphiid (or other) spiders. \u00a0\u00a0The one in this photograph obviously didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A nice surprise for Jeremy Tatum along Carey Road today \u2013 this handsome moth.\u00a0 There are several (many?) noctuid moths that overwinter as imagines, but I didn\u2019t realize that this one did.\u00a0\u00a0 [My computer says I have made a mistake with grammar in the previous sentence.\u00a0 Apparently, it doesn\u2019t like \u201cas imagines\u201d.\u00a0 I don\u2019t see what\u2019s wrong with it.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24501 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4998-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"597\" \/>Girdler Moth<em>\u00a0 Dargida procinctus \u00a0<\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how this moth acquired the English name of \u201cGirdler\u201d. The caterpillars feed on grasses.<br \/>\nThe spellings <em>procinctus <\/em>and <em>procincta<\/em> are both to be found in the literature.\u00a0 On this site, since 2024, we are following spellings given in the <em>ATC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 January 7 \u00a0\u00a0 Here are two more photographs from Ian Cooper\u2019s 2024 January 5 photoshoot: Lady Beetle Calvia quatuordecimguttata\u00a0(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper \u00a0 Also in the picture is a globose springtail, which would be well advised to stay out of the way of the lady beetle.\u00a0 If I remember my Latin correctly (writes Jeremy [&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-24503","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\/24503","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=24503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24509,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24503\/revisions\/24509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}