{"id":5710,"date":"2018-04-07T18:54:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T01:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2018-04-11T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T22:02:12","slug":"april-7-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5710","title":{"rendered":"April 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2018 April 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna photographed two tiny invertebrates in the Kemp Lake area.\u00a0 First a springtail<\/strong>, and we are indebted to Dr Frans Jannsens for identifying it to subfamilial level:<\/p>\n

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Springtail (Entomobryomorpha: Tomoceridae – Tomocerinae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Second, a flat-backed millipede<\/strong>.\u00a0 Thomas Barbin recalled having photographed (https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/observations\/8607841<\/a>) a similar one some time ago, which was identified as probably Scytonotus <\/em><\/strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Probably Scytonotus <\/em>sp. (Polydesmida: Polydesmidae)<\/p>\n

Josemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Since I am an astronomer, I have to insist absolutely that Spring began at precisely 2018 March 20d 14h 59m PDT, though a prolonged cold period since, followed by a prolonged grey and rainy period makes this hard for some to accept.\u00a0 Some insist that Spring doesn\u2019t really begin until the first Orangetips appear.\u00a0 Well I am glad to report that Nathan Fisk wrote yesterday from Fort Rodd Hill Learning Meadow: One or two Sara Orangetips<\/strong> flitting about the buttercups and sipping from the dew. What a wonderful sight!<\/p>\n

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Jochen Moehr reports a bounty of moths from Metchosin.\u00a0 I\u2019ll post some of them today; some will have to wait until tomorrow or the day after!\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for the identifications.<\/p>\n

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Cerastis enigmatica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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Spodolepis danbyi <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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Egira perlubens <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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Scott Gilmore sends photographs of a jumping spider<\/strong>.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes: I had originally tentatively labelled this as a Bronze Jumper Eris militaris<\/em>.\u00a0 We are grateful to Robb Bennett for pointing out that it is really Phanias<\/strong><\/em>, <\/em>most likely P. albeolus<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 <\/em>I asked Robb if the things that look like eyes on the top of he cephalothorax really are<\/span> eyes – and he said yes!\u00a0 He says that salticids are famous for having 360 degree vision.<\/p>\n

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Phanias\u00a0 <\/em>(probably albeolus<\/em>) (Ara.: Salticidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Phanias\u00a0 <\/em>(probably albeolus<\/em>) (Ara.: Salticidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Phanias\u00a0 <\/em>(probably albeolus<\/em>) (Ara.: Salticidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Scott also sends photographs of a small dark-winged fungus gnat<\/strong> that he found indoors.\u00a0 Genus possibly Bradysia<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dark-winged fungus gnat, possibly Bradysia <\/em> sp. (Dip.: Sciaridae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Dark-winged fungus gnat, possibly Bradysia <\/em> sp. (Dip.: Sciaridae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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2018 April 7 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna photographed two tiny invertebrates in the Kemp Lake area.\u00a0 First a springtail, and we are indebted to Dr Frans Jannsens for identifying it to subfamilial level:   Springtail (Entomobryomorpha: Tomoceridae – Tomocerinae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna   Second, a flat-backed millipede.\u00a0 Thomas Barbin recalled having photographed (https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/observations\/8607841) a similar one […]<\/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-5710","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\/5710","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=5710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5770,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions\/5770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}