{"id":5240,"date":"2017-10-21T15:27:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T22:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2017-10-31T10:12:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T17:12:56","slug":"october-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5240","title":{"rendered":"October 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 October 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Apologies – I have been out of action for a few days.\u00a0 Big backlog on my computer, so I hope I don\u2019t inadvertently miss some contributions.\u00a0 E.g., I think I missed Rosemary Jorna\u2019s spider below some days ago.\u00a0 And thanks to Thomas Barbin for identifying it – I had mislabelled it on an earlier version of this posting.\u00a0 And please, all viewers, if you ever spot a mistake, please do let me know!<\/p>\n

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Platycryptus californicus <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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And also two moths photographed by Jochem Moehr in Metchosin:<\/p>\n

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Drepanulatrix <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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Dysstroma citrata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>October is the month for Banded Woolly Bears<\/strong>, the caterpillar of the Isabella Moth<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is one found near the Red Barn at Tod Flats by Jody Wells.<\/p>\n

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Banded Woolly Bear Pyrrharctia isabella <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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Scott Gilmore writes from Upper Lantzville:\u00a0 I was surprised to find three small weevils inside a red pepper. The peppers had been grown in California and I assume they must be the Pepper Weevil,\u00a0<\/strong>Anthonomus eugenii<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum ponders:\u00a0 If they were found on Vancouver Island, but were imported from California, are they eligible for posting on Invert Alert?\u00a0 I took one look at the first charming photo below and immediately decided yes!\u00a0 You just have to love it.\u00a0 According to a Web article, the length of the weevil varies from 1.5 to1.8 mm.\u00a0 (Have a look at a ruler to remind you of how small this is.)<\/p>\n

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Pepper Weevil Anthonomus eugenii <\/em>(Col.: Curculionidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Pepper Weevil Anthonomus eugenii <\/em>(Col.: Curculionidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Pepper Weevil Anthonomus eugenii <\/em>(Col.: Curculionidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 On October 15 I found two flies at Lochside Trail near the pig farm. They were in a weedy patch diagonally across the trail south of the pig farm. (The pig farm is south of Martindale Road.)\u00a0 Also on October 15 one moth was along McIntyre Road near McHugh Road, Central Saanich,<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes.\u00a0 The first fly is Eristalis tenax<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 I think we\u2019ll have to leave the second one as just an unidentified fly, unless anyone has a suggestion.\u00a0 Because of the yellow colour (which I think is at least partly pollen), I had at first thought of Scathophaga stercoraria, <\/em>which is common at the pig farm, but it\u2019s the wrong shape and the eyes are too large.\u00a0 The moth is a rather worn\u00a0 Noctua pronuba<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Drone Fly Eristalis tenax <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Unidentified fly (Diptera)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Noctuidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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The caterpillar that Barb McGrenere found on September 21 (q.v.<\/em>) yesterday produced the moth shown below.<\/p>\n

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Girdler Moth Dargida procinctus <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2017 October 21 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Apologies – I have been out of action for a few days.\u00a0 Big backlog on my computer, so I hope I don\u2019t inadvertently miss some contributions.\u00a0 E.g., I think I missed Rosemary Jorna\u2019s spider below some days ago.\u00a0 And thanks to Thomas Barbin for identifying it – I had mislabelled […]<\/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-5240","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\/5240","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=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5278,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions\/5278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}