{"id":3274,"date":"2016-09-25T18:33:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T02:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2016-09-27T08:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:35:25","slug":"september-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"September 25"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2106 September 25<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ken Vaughan sends a picture of\u00a0 Alucita <\/em><\/strong>montana<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The larval foodplant of this tiny moth is the flowers of Snowberry.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Alucita <\/em>montana<\/em> (Lep.: Alucitidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n

Annie Pang sends a photograph of Araneus diadematus<\/em><\/strong> from Gorge Park, September 24.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Araneus diadematus <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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Annie also sends a picture of a Twenty-spotted Ladybird<\/strong>, a ladybird with the unusual habit of feeding upon powdery mildews.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Twenty-spotted Ladybird Psyllobora vigintimaculata <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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Thomas Barbin sends photographs of slugs<\/strong> from Sombrio Beach, September 21.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Pacific Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/div>\n

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Pacific Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus <\/em> (Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

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Yellow-bordered Taildropper Prophysaon foliolatum <\/em>(Pul.:\u00a0 Anadenidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Liam Singh sends a picture of a sexton beetle<\/strong> with a large load of mites<\/strong>.\u00a0 Sexton beetles often (usually) carry large numbers of mites, and apparently both the beetle and the mites gain an advantage from this symbiotic relationship.\u00a0 You can read (and possibly believe!) an explanation at<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/band\/learn\/nature\/symbiotic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Sexton beetle Nicrophorus <\/em>sp. (Col.: Silphidae),\u00a0 with<\/p>\n

mites Poecilochirus <\/em>(Mesostigmata: Parasitidae)<\/p>\n

Liam Singh<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum sends photographs of two caterpillars from Iron Mine Bay, September 25.\u00a0\u00a0 The first was on Salmonberry.\u00a0 The second was on Western Hemlock.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Habrosyne scripta <\/em>(Lep.: Drepanidae – Thyatirinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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\"\"Panthea virginarius <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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2106 September 25 \u00a0\u00a0 Ken Vaughan sends a picture of\u00a0 Alucita montana.\u00a0 The larval foodplant of this tiny moth is the flowers of Snowberry. Alucita montana (Lep.: Alucitidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan Annie Pang sends a photograph of Araneus diadematus from Gorge Park, September 24.   Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang   Annie also sends a […]<\/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-3274","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\/3274","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=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}