{"id":3857,"date":"2017-04-12T23:23:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T23:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2017-04-13T19:54:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T02:54:03","slug":"april-12-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3857","title":{"rendered":"April 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 April 12<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>We now have an identification of yesterday\u2019s tick.\u00a0 Scroll down to April 11 to see it.<\/p>\n

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In yesterday\u2019s (April 11) brief spell of sunshine, enthusiasts took the opportunity of finding some butterflies – albeit very few of them.\u00a0 Nathan Fisk saw a Cabbage White<\/strong> in the learning meadow at Fort Rodd Hill. He writes: Starting to get jealous of the elfins folks are seeing.\u00a0 [So am I!\u00a0 –\u00a0 Jeremy].\u00a0 And Gerry and Wendy Ansell found at least three Sara Orangetips<\/strong> on the lower western slope of Mount Douglas.<\/p>\n

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Morgan Davies sends a photograph of a bumblebee on Sea Blush on the Gulf Islands, April 10.\u00a0 Sean McCann suggests Bombus melanopygus<\/em><\/strong> – <\/strong>with the caution that its very dark thorax seems odd for the species.<\/p>\n

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Black-tailed Bumblebee Bombus melanopygus <\/em> (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Morgan Davies<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t sit too close to the screen, unless this jumping spider<\/strong>, photographed in the Highlands District by Thomas Barbin on April 11, suddenly jumps out at you. Thanks to Robb Bennett for confirming the identification.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Salticus scenicus <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/div>\n

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If you survived that one, don\u2019t relax.\u00a0 The photograph of two ants (Formica <\/em>sp., known as thatching ants<\/strong>), dragging an earwig into their nest, was taken by Thomas Barbin yesterday.\u00a0 Dr Robert Higgins of Thompson Rivers University cautions that there is no way to be sure of the species without microscopic examination, but the Formica<\/em>s that he sees most often in SW BC are Formica oreas<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The extensive dusky colour on one of the ants suggest this as a possibility, but it could well be another species.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Formica <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Formicidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

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Thomas also photographed the fly below.\u00a0 Thank you to Andrew Young for identifying it as Melanostoma apicale<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Melanostoma apicale <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin
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2017 April 12 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 We now have an identification of yesterday\u2019s tick.\u00a0 Scroll down to April 11 to see it.   In yesterday\u2019s (April 11) brief spell of sunshine, enthusiasts took the opportunity of finding some butterflies – albeit very few of them.\u00a0 Nathan Fisk saw a Cabbage White in the learning meadow at […]<\/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-3857","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\/3857","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=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3866,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}