{"id":5771,"date":"2018-04-11T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T23:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2018-04-12T08:40:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T15:40:44","slug":"april-11-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5771","title":{"rendered":"April 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2018 April 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen Moehr continues to get exciting moths in Metchosin.\u00a0 Here are a few &#8211; there&#8217;ll be more to come in the next posting!\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for help with the identifications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\" style=\"width: 349px;\" title=\"JM978.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/JM978.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Orthosia praeses <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\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_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 356px;\" title=\"JM992.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/JM992.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Orthosia praeses <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 368px;\" title=\"JM018.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/JM018.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Orthosia praeses <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\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_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 433px;\" title=\"JM001.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/JM001.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Orthosia hibisci <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 402px;\" title=\"JM004.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/JM004.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Orthosia hibisci <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\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_image012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 408px;\" title=\"JM013.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/JM013.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Orthosia hibisci <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/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_image014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 404px;\" title=\"JM012.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/JM012.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Orthosia hibisci <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I\u2019m envious &#8211; all I could find at the well-lit rear door of my Saanich apartment building this morning was a weevil.<\/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_image016.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 321px;\" title=\"Raspberry.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Raspberry.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Otiorhynchus singularis <\/em>(Col.: Curculionidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although this site is for terrestrial invertebrates, I couldn\u2019t resist this next one &#8211; a <strong>marine mite<\/strong>.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know there were such things.\u00a0 It was photographed by John MacFarlane.\u00a0 Dr Heather Proctor writes:\u00a0 This is a mesostigmatan.\u00a0 There are no completely subaquatic mesostigs, so this was probably from the intertidal zone, or possibly got washed into deeper water.\u00a0 Unfortunately it is a nymph, so I can\u2019t tell what Family it belongs to.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes: Until I have time to work on going through all the mites on this site, for the present I am listing, in the Index, all mites and ticks under the Order Acari.\u00a0 However, in modern classifications, Acari is a Subclass (or at least something higher than Order).\u00a0 Parasitiformes might be regarded as an Order within the Acari, and the Mesostigmata as a Suborder within Parasitiformes.<\/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_image018.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 421px;\" title=\"McF mite.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/McF-mite.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nymphal marine mite (Acari &#8211; Parasitiformes &#8211; Mesostigmata)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">John MacFarlane<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Viewers who are interested in trying their hand at amateur photomicrography, or indeed more experienced photomicrographers, may be interested in a site being designed by Mr MacFarlane for that purpose.\u00a0 See the Invert Alert entry for March 29, or go to micronaturalist.ca or write to Mr MacFarlane at: \u00a0 microscope at shaw dot ca\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for more details.\u00a0 It sounds interesting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 April 11 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen Moehr continues to get exciting moths in Metchosin.\u00a0 Here are a few &#8211; there&#8217;ll be more to come in the next posting!\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for help with the identifications. &nbsp; &nbsp; Orthosia praeses (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr Orthosia praeses (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr Orthosia praeses (Lep.: Noctuidae) [&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-5771","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\/5771","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=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5782,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions\/5782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}