{"id":7140,"date":"2018-09-20T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7140"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T20:37:59","slug":"september-20-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7140","title":{"rendered":"September 20 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2018 September 20 morning
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Seems this is a spidery time of year. \u00a0\u00a0Two from Lantzville photographed by Scott Gilmore, and one in Victoria by Aziza Cooper.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for the identifications.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Of this one, Robb\u00a0 writes:\u00a0 This is one of our common agelenid house spiders but I\u2019m not sure if it is a Tegenaria domestica<\/em><\/strong> or a juvenile Eratigena duellica<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Tegenaria domestica <\/em>or Eratigena duellica <\/em>(Ara.: Agelenidae)<\/p>\n

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Female Steatoda<\/em> (perhaps albomaculata<\/em>) (Ara.: Theridiidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Araneus diadematus <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart sends a photograph of a dragonfly from Panama Flats, Deptember 15.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for the identification.\u00a0 Rob writes:\u00a0 This is a very nice picture of a male Aeshna umbrosa<\/em><\/strong>. The most obvious character in this photo is the lack of a strong black line across the face, as seen in A.<\/em> palmata<\/em>. In addition, the lateral thoracic stripes are bordered in black (not so obvious here), the abdominal spots are relatively small (takes practice) and, if you could see it better, the top of the tenth abdominal segment is black, not with blue spots as in A. palmata<\/em>. \u00a0Also, if you could see the ventral surface of the abdomen, there would be paired pale spots\u00a0on the segments, absent in A. palmata<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Barb McGrenere sends a photograph of a caterpillar from a blueberry plant in her Cordova Bay garden, September 19.<\/p>\n

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Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae) Barb McGrenere<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Mark Wynja writes:\u00a0 On September 18th I spotted a road-killed Praying Mantis<\/strong> on\u00a0Edwards Road at the end of Dawson Road, Nanoose. I stopped to check it out and almost immediately another one nearly flew into me. It landed in the tall grass along a wire fence allowing me to catch it easily.\u00a0 A nearby homeowner told me his wife found one a couple weeks ago on their property.<\/p>\n

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Praying Mantis Mantis<\/em> (probably religiosa<\/em>) (Man.: Mantidae) Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a Chocolate Arion<\/strong> Slug<\/strong> from Glendale Trail taken September 19th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Chocolate Arion Arion rufus\u00a0 <\/em>(Pul.:\u00a0 Arionidae) Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a photograph of a moth from Metchosin.\u00a0 Libby Avis writes:\u00a0 Safe to say\u00a0“Xestia infimatimis<\/em> species group”, but I can’t go beyond that. There are three species in the group which are very similar – X. finatimis, X. infimatis<\/em> and X. verniloides.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Xestia finatimis<\/em>\u00a0group (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2018 September 20 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Seems this is a spidery time of year. \u00a0\u00a0Two from Lantzville photographed by Scott Gilmore, and one in Victoria by Aziza Cooper.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for the identifications. \u00a0 Of this one, Robb\u00a0 writes:\u00a0 This is one of our common agelenid house spiders but I\u2019m not sure […]<\/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-7140","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\/7140","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=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7153,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions\/7153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}