{"id":3719,"date":"2017-03-07T08:36:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2017-03-08T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:12:50","slug":"march-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3719","title":{"rendered":"March 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 March 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Leah Ramsay sends a close-up photograph of one of the <strong> cluster flies <\/strong>that she found in a rotten log (see March 4 posting).\u00a0 Viewers who would like to know exactly which <strong><em>Pollenia<\/em><\/strong> species this is of the six that are known to occur in North America can try their hand at identifying it from the key:\u00a0 http:\/\/c<a href=\"http:\/\/cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca\/jmw_19\/jmw_19.pdf\u00a0\u00a0\">jai.biologicalsurvey.ca\/jmw_19\/jmw_19.pdf\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> Good luck!\u00a0 (And if you do come to a conclusion be sure to let us know!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"cluster closeup.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cluster-closeup.jpg\" width=\"514.4\" height=\"361.79466666666667\" 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>Pollenia <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Calliphoridae)\u00a0 Leah Ramsay<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Appropriately, Annie Pang sends two photographs of the host of <em>Pollenia,<\/em> namely an earthworm, probably the Common Earthworm <em><strong>Lumbricus terrestris<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; like the commonest species of cluster fly <em>Pollenia rudis<\/em>, a European import.\u00a0 Sometimes it can be difficult to find a native species of any plant or animal in Victoria!\u00a0 As with her photographs of the caterpillar of <em>Noctua pronuba<\/em> (another European! &#8211; see March 6 posting), the earthworm was photographed in the Gorge Park Community Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Earthworm1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Earthworm1.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"540.684375\" 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_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Earthworm, probably <em>Lumbricus terrestris <\/em>(Hap.: Lumbricidae) Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Earthworm2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Earthworm2.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"449.40000000000003\" 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_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Earthworm, probably <em>Lumbricus terrestris <\/em>(Hap.: Lumbricidae) Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 March 7 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Leah Ramsay sends a close-up photograph of one of the cluster flies that she found in a rotten log (see March 4 posting).\u00a0 Viewers who would like to know exactly which Pollenia species this is of the six that are known to occur in North America can try their hand [&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-3719","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\/3719","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=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}