{"id":5297,"date":"2017-11-02T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2017-11-02T09:06:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:06:02","slug":"november-2-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5297","title":{"rendered":"November 2 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Ian Cruickshank sends some pictures of a butterfly (October 26), and a beetle and two spiders (October 27) from the sand dunes among the Ammophila<\/em> on Sidney Island Spit.<\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Ian Cruickshank<\/p>\n

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   Charlene Wood identifies the beetle for us as Pterostichus algidus<\/em><\/strong>.  Note that it has fused elytra and does not fly.<\/p>\n

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Pterostichus algidus <\/em>(Col.: Carabidae)  Ian Cruickshank<\/p>\n

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   Robb Bennett writes:  These two spiders are old friends, both introduced from Britain or western Europe about 100 years ago:<\/p>\n

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         The reddish one is Dysdera crocata<\/em><\/strong>, known to the British as the “slater slayer” because of its preference for preying upon woodlice.<\/p>\n

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        The other is one of our two species of Eratigena<\/em> (previously classified in Tegenaria<\/em>) – either Eratigena agrestis<\/em><\/strong> (hobo spider) or Eratigena atrica<\/em> (giant house spider).  I suspect it is E. agrestis <\/em> based on its subtle golden hue – atrica<\/em> is usually much darker\/grayer.<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Latin and Greek Scholars will be wondering what “Eratigena” means.  They may well continue to wonder.  Fans of cryptic crosswords will doubtless immediately notice that Eratigena<\/em> is merely a meaningless Greek-looking anagram of Tegenaria<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Dysdera crocata <\/em>(Ara.: Dysderidae)  Ian Cruickshank<\/p>\n

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Eratigena <\/em>(probably agrestis <\/em>)  (Ara.: Agelenidae)  Ian Cruickshank<\/p>\n

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2017 November 2 morning      Ian Cruickshank sends some pictures of a butterfly (October 26), and a beetle and two spiders (October 27) from the sand dunes among the Ammophila on Sidney Island Spit.   Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Ian Cruickshank        Charlene Wood identifies the beetle for us as […]<\/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-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert","post_format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297","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=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}