{"id":3394,"date":"2016-10-24T15:34:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T23:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T22:32:02","slug":"october-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3394","title":{"rendered":"October 24"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 October 24<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, October 23, I saw two Cabbage Whites<\/strong> on Tillicum Road. There was one on Tillicum Road at Carey Road and the other one was on Tillicum Road at the Island Highway.\u00a0 And today, October 24, Devon Parker saw two on the hillside along Latoria Road.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Bill Savale and I visited the Kinsol trestle yesterday (October 23).\u00a0 The river below was in full flood and the scenery quite spectacular, but this note, of course, concerns invertebrates seen there.\u00a0 The fence on either side of the bridge has a handrail made of a shiny aluminium tube running the full length of the bridge.\u00a0 A shiny aluminium tube sounds an unlikely habitat on which to find anything of natural history interest, but in fact there was a fantastic variety of creatures there – beetles, bugs,<\/strong> stoneflies,<\/strong> large colourful globose springtails, mites<\/strong>, etc. I am sure the large harvestman <\/strong>we saw was not the usual Phalangium opilio<\/em>, but was a more impressive species. There was a huge variety (possibly about 15 species – we lost count) of spiders,<\/strong> nearly all of them unfamiliar to us, and not the usual run of spiders that are commonly seen on this site.\u00a0 They ranged in size from tiny ones barely visible to our aged eyes to huge, frightening ones. One of the commonest was a species of Cyclosa<\/em><\/strong>, with its odd-shaped abdomen and its beautiful web with stabilimentum.\u00a0 Also of great interest – there were lots of things that looked like tiny (5 mm) fragments of general detritus on the aluminium tube.\u00a0 At first that\u2019s just what we thought they were – until we noticed that some of them moved slightly, seemingly of their own volition.\u00a0 On looking at them closely, we saw that each of them was a tiny tube, and from time to time a small head and a pair of legs poked out.\u00a0 It seems hardly credible, but I think they may have been caddisfly <\/strong> larvae.\u00a0 Caddisfly larvae are, of course, familiar objects under water in ponds, but I have never heard of one out of water, let alone dozens of them on the shiny surface of an aluminium tube, nowhere near water other than the raging river hundreds of feet below.\u00a0 Quite extraordinary!<\/p>\n

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Also found near the bridge was a mushroom (Bill will know which species), and, in the spaces between the gills was a horde of mites with exceptionally long legs – especially the front pair.\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Heather Proctor for identifying these as members of the family Eupodidae.<\/p>\n

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Libby Avis sends photographs of two caterpillars found on alder on a logging road near the Alberni Inlet on October 22nd<\/sup>.\u00a0 One is the Peppered Moth <\/strong>Biston betularia<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>(of industrial melanism fame).\u00a0 The other is a hooktip moth <\/strong>Drepana <\/em><\/strong>sp.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong> Jeremy Tatum writes that he can\u2019t be totally certain whether it is Drepana arcuata <\/em>or Drepana bilineata<\/em>, but he\u2019d put his money (maybe not a lot of it) on the latter.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Peppered Moth Biston betularia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Libby Avis<\/div>\n

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\"\"Peppered Moth Biston betularia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Libby Avis<\/div>\n

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Drepana <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Drepanidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/p>\n

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Drepana <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Drepanidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/p>\n

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Liam Singh sends a spectacular photograph of a jumping spider <\/strong> Phidippus <\/em><\/strong>sp. <\/strong>from his yard.\u00a0 <\/strong>Although it has no red, it is believed that this is probably a young Phidippus johnsoni<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Jumping spider Phidippus\u00a0<\/em>(probably johnsoni<\/em>)\u00a0 (Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Liam Singh<\/div>\n

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2016 October 24 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, October 23, I saw two Cabbage Whites on Tillicum Road. There was one on Tillicum Road at Carey Road and the other one was on Tillicum Road at the Island Highway.\u00a0 And today, October 24, Devon Parker saw two on the hillside along Latoria Road.   […]<\/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-3394","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\/3394","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=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}