{"id":9727,"date":"2019-11-11T15:45:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T23:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9727"},"modified":"2019-11-11T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T23:46:56","slug":"november-11-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9727","title":{"rendered":"November 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2019 November 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:<strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>Here are two more of the difficult challenges that Mr E has set us.&nbsp; The first is a  <strong>leaf beetle<\/strong> of the Family Chrysomelidae.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is a huge Family, so it is difficult to get an exact identification.&nbsp; However, Scott Gilmore had a go and he believes it is a beetle in the genus&nbsp;  <strong><em>Altica<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"388\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"371.08717948717947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-38.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leaf beetle <em>Altica <\/em>sp. (Col.: Chrysomelidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jeremy continues:&nbsp; At first I had no idea what the creature below was, but now I believe it is a  <strong>non-biting midge <\/strong>of the enormous Family <strong>Chironomidae.<br \/>  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"468\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"447.59999999999997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pastedImage-39.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Non-biting midge (Dip.: Chironomidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning.&nbsp; No pics.&nbsp; One each of:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Epirrita autumnata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Operophtera brumata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Orthosia mys<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sunira decipiens<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Xanthorhoe defensaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 November 11 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Here are two more of the difficult challenges that Mr E has set us.&nbsp; The first is a leaf beetle of the Family Chrysomelidae.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is a huge Family, so it is difficult to get an exact identification.&nbsp; However, Scott Gilmore had a go and he believes [&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-9727","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\/9727","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=9727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}