{"id":5074,"date":"2017-09-20T15:28:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T22:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5074"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:34:16","slug":"september-20-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5074","title":{"rendered":"September 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 September 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sorry &#8211; no posting yesterday (September 19).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today we have two syrphid flies, and we are grateful to Jeff Skevington and Andrew Young for their identification.\u00a0 The first one, perched on an anemone, was photographed by Jochen Moehr in Metchosin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jochen syrph.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Jochen-syrph.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"361.77859778597787\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Meliscaeva cinctella <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae) Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 The second one was photographed on Pender Island in July by Ren Ferguson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"FlySpecies_.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FlySpecies_.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"580.1066666666667\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Polydontomyia curvipes <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae) Ren Ferguson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The spider below was photographed yesterday by Rosemary Jorna in the Kemp Lake area of Otter Point.\u00a0 We are grateful to Robb Bennett for identifying it for us as a fenmale <strong><em>Araneus saevus<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>or <strong><em>Araneus nordmanni<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Its head is hidden by its massive abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rosemary spider lat.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rosemary-spider-lat.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"470.84\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Araneus saevus<\/em>\/<em>nordmanni <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rosemary spider dor.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rosemary-spider-dor.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"488.71999999999997\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Araneus saevus<\/em>\/<em>nordmanni <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum shows a caterpillar of <strong><em>Pheosia rimosa <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on an Aspen leaf from Munn Road.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 434px;\" title=\"Pheosia.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pheosia.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pheosia rimosa <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 September 20 \u00a0 Sorry &#8211; no posting yesterday (September 19). &nbsp; Today we have two syrphid flies, and we are grateful to Jeff Skevington and Andrew Young for their identification.\u00a0 The first one, perched on an anemone, was photographed by Jochen Moehr in Metchosin. &nbsp; Meliscaeva cinctella (Dip.: Syrphidae) Jochen Moehr \u00a0\u00a0 The second [&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-5074","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\/5074","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=5074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}