{"id":7271,"date":"2018-10-23T16:08:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T23:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7271"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:53:43","slug":"october-23-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7271","title":{"rendered":"October 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 October 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>A lttle late for an \u201cAlert\u201d \u2013 but interesting enough to post anyway.\u00a0 Victoria West photographed this huge beetle on Mount Douglas on August 29, 2018 at 9:44 pm.\u00a0 She writes:\u00a0 I was using my cell phone flashlight to navigate the pathway from the upper parking lot to the lookout platform when I saw this along the pathway. I believe it is a female, both because of its size and it appeared to be laying eggs with an ovipositor when I first saw it but it pulled it back in when the light was focussed on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Scott Gilmore for confirming its identification as a female <strong><em>Prionus californicus.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Scott writes:\u00a0 <span dir=\"ltr\">Females tend to have antennae about half the length of the body while males are 2\/3 body length.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; 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=\"big beetle.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/big-beetle.jpg\" width=\"526.4\" height=\"439.1053333333333\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Prionus californicus <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0 Victoria West<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 October 23 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 A lttle late for an \u201cAlert\u201d \u2013 but interesting enough to post anyway.\u00a0 Victoria West photographed this huge beetle on Mount Douglas on August 29, 2018 at 9:44 pm.\u00a0 She writes:\u00a0 I was using my cell phone flashlight to navigate the pathway from the upper parking lot to the lookout [&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-7271","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\/7271","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=7271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7274,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7271\/revisions\/7274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}