{"id":9308,"date":"2019-09-12T10:33:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9308"},"modified":"2019-09-21T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T16:50:05","slug":"september-12-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9308","title":{"rendered":"September 12 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2019 September 12 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Erratum<\/em>:\u00a0\u00a0 On September 11, I had misidentified a dragonfly photographed by Jody Wells.\u00a0 The correction has now been made and the insect in now correctly labelled.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of some beetles, and we are most grateful to Charlene Wood for identifying them.<\/p>\n

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The first, photographed at Port Alberni, September 8, is a leaf beetle of the family Chrysomelidae.\u00a0 This is a large family of small beetles, which need very close examination for safe identification, so we shall just leave it as a chrysomelid.<\/p>\n

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Leaf beetle (Col.: Chrysomelidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Next is a ground beetle, Pterostichus algidus<\/em><\/strong>, from Bamfield, September 7.<\/p>\n

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Pterostichus algidus <\/em>(Col.: Carabidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Charlene writes that the third, photographed at Bamfield on September 9, is a cool intertidal beach specialist staphylinid Pictured Rove Beetle<\/strong> Thinopinus pictus<\/em><\/strong>. They mostly feed on beach hoppers (Amphipoda).<\/p>\n

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Thinopinus pictus <\/em>(Col.: Staphylinidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a picture of a spider.\u00a0 Dr Robb Bennett writes:\u00a0 The spider is a mature male Agelenopsis<\/em> grass funnel-web spider. Most likely either Agelenopsis actuosa<\/em><\/strong> or Agelenopsis oklahoma<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 they are the only two in our area which have a very large circular embolus (the black object immediately below the spider\u2019s eye area). There are several other species of Agelenopsis <\/em>around but their emboli are less conspicuous, much less sticky-outy (a technical term).<\/p>\n

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Agelenopsis actuosa <\/em>or A. oklahoma <\/em> (Ara.: Agelenidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Rick and Libby Avis saw a Ringlet<\/strong> and a Woodland Skipper <\/strong>at Island View Beach on September 6, and photographed a female Caenurgina erechtea<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Caenurgina erechtea <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Erebinae) Rick Avis<\/p>\n

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Scott Gilmore photographed a Fall Webworm <\/strong>– the caterpillar of the moth Hyphantria cunea<\/strong><\/em> in his Lantzville garden today:<\/p>\n

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Hyphantria cunea<\/em> (Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum photographed a caterpillar from East Sooke Park.\u00a0\u00a0 Not sure whether it is Habrosyne scripta <\/em>\u00a0or Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides<\/em>.\u00a0 Shall have to wait until next spring to be sure.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/em>(Lep.: Drepanidae \u2013 Thysanurinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n

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1 Fishia illocata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

6 Lacinipolia pensilis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Platyptilia carduidactylus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

4 Xestia finatimis complex\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Platyptilia carduidactylus <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Pterophoridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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

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Fishea illocata <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2019 September 12 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Erratum:\u00a0\u00a0 On September 11, I had misidentified a dragonfly photographed by Jody Wells.\u00a0 The correction has now been made and the insect in now correctly labelled. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of some beetles, and we are most grateful to Charlene Wood for identifying them.   The first, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9308","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\/9308","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=9308"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9401,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}