{"id":3502,"date":"2016-12-01T15:11:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T23:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2017-02-10T08:25:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:25:32","slug":"december-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"December 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 December 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I went to Goldstream Park this morning specifically to try to photograph <em>Operophtera bruceata<\/em>, which I believe (not necessarily correctly) to be the default winter moth there.\u00a0 I photographed the two (different) individuals shown below. \u00a0I think if I had seen them at my Saanich apartment I wouldn\u2019t have hesitated in calling them <em>brumata<\/em>, but, being at Goldstream, they are probably <em>bruceata<\/em>. In other words, both of these individuals fall squarely into the category of \u201cI\u2019m not sure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"O sp 1.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/O-sp-1.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"399.4666666666667\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Operophtera bruceata\/brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"O sp 2.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/O-sp-2.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"399.4666666666667\" name=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em>Operophtera bruceata\/brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Now more of Thomas Barbin\u2019s fine pictures.\u00a0 First a <strong>Red-cross Shield Bug<\/strong>.\u00a0 (Viewers will notice that on this site we use the word \u201cbug\u201d only when we mean \u201cbug\u201d &#8211; not for any old insect!)\u00a0 I have labelled the Family as Pentatomidae, though some authors place it in Acanthosomatidae. \u00a0Also, the spelling for the species is sometimes given as <em>cruciata<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Barbin Red-cross Shield Bug (Elasmostethus cruciatus).jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Barbin-Red-cross-Shield-Bug-Elasmostethus-cruciatus.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"399.4666666666667\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Red-cross Shield Bug\u00a0 <em>Elasmostethus cruciatus<\/em> (Hem.:Pentatomidae) Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Next, two photographs of globose <strong>springtails<\/strong>. These days they are no longer insects, but they are entognaths.\u00a0 That is, they have internal jaws.\u00a0 The first was identified by Frans Janssens.\u00a0 The second, related species is not yet identified.\u00a0 Both were photographed in the Highlands on November 26.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Barbin Ptenothrix maculosa.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Barbin-Ptenothrix-maculosa.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"445.9046666666667\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Globose springtail\u00a0 <em>Ptenothrix macula <\/em>(Collembola: Dicyrtomidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Barbin Dicyrtomidae.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Barbin-Dicyrtomidae.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"461.8833333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Globose springtail\u00a0 (Collembola: Dicyrtomidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Davies sends a photograph of a beetle grub from Sidney Island.\u00a0 For the moment we can take it down to Superfamily level, but no further with certainty.\u00a0 Nevertheless, there&#8217;s a fairly good chance that it is <em>Polyphylla crinita<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"scarab1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/scarab1.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"411.95\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Beetle grub,\u00a0 maybe <em>Polyphylla crinita<\/em>\u00a0 (Col.: Scarabaeoidea)\u00a0 Morgan Davies<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 December 1 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I went to Goldstream Park this morning specifically to try to photograph Operophtera bruceata, which I believe (not necessarily correctly) to be the default winter moth there.\u00a0 I photographed the two (different) individuals shown below. \u00a0I think if I had seen them at my Saanich apartment I [&hellip;]<\/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-3502","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\/3502","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=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}