{"id":6664,"date":"2018-07-18T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2018-07-18T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:39:44","slug":"july-18-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6664","title":{"rendered":"July 18 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>July 18 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>And now for something completely different.\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 Here is another of this summer\u2019s interesting insect actions.\u00a0 I believe this is a <strong>Giant Water Bug<\/strong>. It is over 5 cm. The grandchildren caught it in a net in the shallows on the Sooke River yesterday (July 17). \u00a0When we released it it came to rest underwater on a rock, then next thing we saw was the crayfish head under the rock followed by the bug. A few seconds later the bug emerged, dragging out the crayfish,\u00a0which soon stopped struggling. We watched in fascinated horror for five minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary tells us that the <strong>Signal Crayfish <\/strong><strong><em>Pacifastacus leniusculus<\/em><\/strong>, our only native crayfish, occurs in the Sooke River, so it is probable that that is what this one is.\u00a0 However, there are a few non-native crayfish in British Columbia, and we can\u2019t be absolutely sure of this one.\u00a0 Rosemary speculates that it might have just finished a moult, which might account for its very light colour. The main claws showed red.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"crayfish1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/crayfish1.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"444.59999999999997\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Giant Water Bug <em>Lethocerus americanus <\/em>(Hem.: Belostomatidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Crayfish, probably <em>Pacifastacus leniusculus <\/em> (Dec.: Astacidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Rosemary also sends a photograph of a beetle from Sooke River, kindly identified by Scott Gilmore as <strong><em>Xestoleptura crassipes<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"ceramb Sooke.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ceramb-Sooke.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"444.59999999999997\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Xestoleptura crassipes <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a photograph of the moth <strong> <em>Iridopsis emasculata<\/em><\/strong> from Metchosin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"P1100805.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/P1100805.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"332.95599999999996\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Iridopsis emasculata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 18 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And now for something completely different.\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 Here is another of this summer\u2019s interesting insect actions.\u00a0 I believe this is a Giant Water Bug. It is over 5 cm. The grandchildren caught it in a net in the shallows on the Sooke River yesterday (July 17). \u00a0When we [&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-6664","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\/6664","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=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6668,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}