{"id":3455,"date":"2016-11-09T15:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T23:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2016-12-03T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T18:20:51","slug":"november-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3455","title":{"rendered":"November 9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 My computer is \u201cup\u201d again, so Invert Alert is back in business.\u00a0 The Cabbage White <\/strong>caterpillar shown on November 4 pupated yesterday.\u00a0 The chrysalis is shown below.<\/p>\n

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Cabbage White Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Cabbage White Pieris rapae <\/em>( Lep.: Pieridae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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A bunch of correspondence between several entomologists appeared on my screen this morning, speculating about the possible expansion of a spreadwing damselfly Archilestes californicus<\/em> and the Viceroy butterfly into British Columbia (possibly, one of them suggested, as a result of the Trump effect).\u00a0 Observers are asked, therefore, to keep a look-out for these species next summer.\u00a0 Viceroys are supposed to be Monarch mimics, and indeed they do a remarkably good job of it.\u00a0 But when I saw one in Ontario once, there was no doubt what it was – it was immediately recognizable as a Viceroy, and similar in \u201cjizz\u201d to our Lorquin\u2019s Admiral.<\/p>\n

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Libby Avis writes: Photo of a surprisingly fresh-looking Mourning Cloak<\/strong> yesterday, Nov. 6th<\/sup> at the Little Qualicum, presumably looking for a spot to hibernate. Not much else around, though \u2013 too wet!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/div>\n

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Val George writes: This small (c<\/em>. 13mm shell diameter) snail was in my garden in Oak Bay yesterday, Nov 8\u00a0 –\u00a0 not one I’ve seen there before.\u00a0 I know nothing (actually, less than nothing if that’s possible) about snails, but I thought I might as well take a shot at identifying it; my best guess is Oxychilus draparnaudi<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum responds:\u00a0 Well, I don\u2019t know much about them, either, but I don\u2019t think there\u2019s much doubt about this one!\u00a0 If any malacologist out there thinks differently, let us know!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Dark-bodied Glass-snail Oxychilus draparnaudi <\/em>(Pul.: Daubebariidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/div>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 This large spider was on the wall of the Elliott building at UVic this morning (November 9).\u00a0 21 mm from front of head to tip of abdomen.\u00a0 Thank you, Robb Bennett, for identifying it for us as a female Callobius severus<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 We have had this spider on Invert Alert once before – in 2011, when Ann Nightingale found one in her shoe just as she was about to put it on.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Callobius severus<\/em> \u00a0(Ara.: Amaurobiidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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2016 November 9 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 My computer is \u201cup\u201d again, so Invert Alert is back in business.\u00a0 The Cabbage White caterpillar shown on November 4 pupated yesterday.\u00a0 The chrysalis is shown below.   Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum \u00a0Cabbage White Pieris rapae ( Lep.: Pieridae) Jeremy Tatum     […]<\/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-3455","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\/3455","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=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}