{"id":6031,"date":"2018-05-08T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6031"},"modified":"2018-05-10T15:21:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T22:21:33","slug":"may-8-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6031","title":{"rendered":"May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Libby Avis<\/strong>, who identifies many of our moths for us, is coming to Metchosin from Port Alberni\u00a0 on Friday to give a public talk on <strong>Moths.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It will be at <strong>Metchosin Municipal Hall, 4450 Happy Valley Road, behind the fire hall. 7.00 pm., Friday May 11<\/strong><strong><sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This should interest many viewers of this site, and I\u2019m very much looking forward to it.\u00a0 All welcome!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna sends a picture from Sooke of a <strong>jumping spider<\/strong> at lunch on May 2.\u00a0 Thanks to Sean McCann for identifying it for us as a female <strong><em>Phidippus purpuratus<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 And now, May 10, we have just had a note from Scott Gilmore telling us what lunch was.\u00a0 Scott writes:\u00a0 <span dir=\"ltr\">What it is eating stood out to me as I have just been finding them here in Lantzville. It is a leaf beetle from the genus <em><strong>Syneta<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 580px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"salticid.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/salticid.jpg\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"526.288\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Phidippus purpuratus <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 and leaf beetle\u00a0<em>Syneta\u00a0<\/em>sp. (Col.: Chrysomelidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills sends a photograph of two <strong>Western Spring Azures <\/strong>from Mount Tolmie this afternoon.\u00a0 They are on a sprig of Ocean Spray.\u00a0 At the end of it is a panicle of young flower buds, not quite open yet.\u00a0 The Western Spring Azure lays its eggs on the Ocean Spray buds just before the flowers open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 609px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"azures kirsten.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azures-kirsten.jpg\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"533.4\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Spring Azures <em>Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 8 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Libby Avis, who identifies many of our moths for us, is coming to Metchosin from Port Alberni\u00a0 on Friday to give a public talk on Moths.\u00a0 It will be at Metchosin Municipal Hall, 4450 Happy Valley Road, behind the fire hall. 7.00 pm., Friday May 11th.\u00a0 This should interest many [&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-6031","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\/6031","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=6031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6040,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions\/6040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}