{"id":9717,"date":"2019-11-10T19:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T03:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2019-11-11T10:41:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:41:28","slug":"november-10-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9717","title":{"rendered":"November 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2019 November 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Mr E has been photographing all sorts of invertebrates that are going to be a challenge to identify.\u00a0 We\u2019ll start with two slugs from Prospect Lake.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The first one doesn\u2019t have the usual colour and pattern of a <strong>Banana Slug<\/strong>, but I can\u2019t think of any other slug that looks like this one, so for time being I\u2019ll label it as a probable <strong>Banana Slug <\/strong><strong><em>Ariolimax columbianus<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 I just don\u2019t know what the second one is.\u00a0 If any viewer has ideas on either of these slugs, please do let us know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 398px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-30.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probable Banana Slug <em>Ariolimax columbianus <\/em> (Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 393px; 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=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-31.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probable Banana Slug <em>Ariolimax columbianus <\/em> (Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-32.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"405.5179487179487\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unknown slug\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Next a small spider.\u00a0 Dr Robb Bennett writes that he \u201cthinks\u201d it is <strong> <em>Enoplognatha ovata<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>If that\u2019s what Dr Bennett \u201cthinks\u201d it is, that will be pretty close to certain!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-33.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"384.4769230769231\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Enoplognatha ovata<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-34.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"447.59999999999997\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Enoplognatha ovata<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More to come as we try to identify them!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here are Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths from this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Epirrita autumnata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Operophtera <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp<\/strong><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Orthosia mys<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Sunira decipiens<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Xanthorhoe defensaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-35.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"396.9102564102564\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen\u2019s next two moths remind us that autumn will soon be giving way to winter:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 570px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-36.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Autumnal Moth <em>Epirrita autumnata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image016.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-37.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"535.5897435897435\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Winter Moth <em>Operophtera brumata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 November 10 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Mr E has been photographing all sorts of invertebrates that are going to be a challenge to identify.\u00a0 We\u2019ll start with two slugs from Prospect Lake.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The first one doesn\u2019t have the usual colour and pattern of a Banana Slug, but I can\u2019t think of any other [&hellip;]<\/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-9717","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\/9717","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=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9726,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}