{"id":3778,"date":"2017-03-28T07:40:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:47:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:47:24","slug":"march-28-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3778","title":{"rendered":"March 28"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  <\/strong>Butterflies!<\/strong>   <\/strong>None have yet been reported direct to Invert Alert, but Gordon Hart tells me that three Cabbage Whites <\/strong>have been reported to the BC Butterfly Group:  James Miskelly on March 15 in Saanich;  Michael Bentley on March 20 in Central Saanich; and Peter Boon on the Lochside trail on March 22.<\/p>\n

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  Rebecca Reader-Lee sends a photograph of a spider that has been hanging around on the ceiling of her house in the North Highlands for a while.  The picture below was taken on March 11, but she sees the spider pretty much daily.   Thanks to Robb Bennett for identifying it as a species of Philodromus <\/em><\/strong>of the family Philodromidae.  These are known as “running crab spiders”, or simply as “philodromid crab spiders”, and are only distantly related to “the” crab spiders (Thomisidae).<\/p>\n

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\"\"“Running crab spider”   Philodromus <\/em>sp. (Ara.: Philodromidae)  <\/div>\n

Rebecca Reader-Lee<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Gatten has successfully identified Bill Katz’s micro moth shown on March 24.  I’ll let viewers scroll down to see what it was!   He also writes:  “I was shocked at how many moths were around lights at a couple of places in Metchosin (Metchosin Community Hall and Hans Helgesen Elementary School).  I haven’t seen that much at the community hall in the past, but it was happening there on Saturday!  I had: Egira hiemalis<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Egira crucialis<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Lithophane pertorrida<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Lithophane innominata<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Orthosia praeses<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Orthosia pacifica<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Acerra normalis<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Pleromelloida conserta<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Eupithecia ravocostaliata<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Eupithecia annulata<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Hydriomena nubilofasciata<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Hydriomena manzanita<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Phigalia plumogeraria<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Venusia obsoleta<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>(or pearsalli<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> but they might be synonyms apparently), and Acleris<\/em><\/strong> sp.  At the elementary school, I had: <\/strong>Egira hiemalis<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Egira crucialis<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Orthosia praeses<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> Orthosia hibisci<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Acerra<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>normalis<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Feralia<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>deceptiva<\/strong><\/em>, Eupithecia ravocostaliata, Eupithecia annulata,<\/em><\/strong> possibly 1 or 2 more Eupithecia<\/em><\/strong> spp. (olivacea<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>might be one), Hydriomena nubilofasciata<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Hydriomena<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>manzanita<\/strong><\/em>, <\/strong>Venusia obsoleta<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>(same disclaimer as above), Xanthorhoe defensaria<\/em><\/strong>.  So, as you can see, there is a lot around right now!”<\/p>\n

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2017 March 28     Butterflies!   None have yet been reported direct to Invert Alert, but Gordon Hart tells me that three Cabbage Whites have been reported to the BC Butterfly Group:  James Miskelly on March 15 in Saanich;  Michael Bentley on March 20 in Central Saanich; and Peter Boon on the Lochside trail on […]<\/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-3778","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\/3778","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=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}