{"id":10052,"date":"2020-03-10T09:19:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2020-03-10T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:27:22","slug":"march-10-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10052","title":{"rendered":"March 10 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 March 10 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Mr E sends a photograph of a midge on March 8.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I cannot be sure whether this is a non-biting midge of the Family Chironomidae or a phantom midge of the Family Chaoboridae, although I am leaning fairly strongly toward the latter.  Whichever it is, the plumed antennae show that it is a male. Neither Family bites.<\/p>\n

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Probably a phantom midge (Dip.: Chaoboridae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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   He also sends two photographs of a moth from Brentwood Bay, March 8. Jeremy Tatum writes:  I think this is Eupithecia annulata<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>or E. olivacea<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong>  <\/strong>a frustrating pair of pugs that, despite our best efforts, neither Libby Avis nor I always feel able to determine with total certainty.<\/p>\n

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Eupithecia annulata\/olivacea<\/em>  <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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Eupithecia annulata\/olivacea<\/em>  <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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    Gordon Hart writes from the Highlands:  Even though we had a heavy frost yesterday morning, Monday, March 9, it was much warmer by early afternoon when we saw a Comma sp<\/strong>. fly by. We saw it twice but at a distance and flying, so I was unable to get a photo. By size and colour, I thought it was a Satyr<\/strong> Comma<\/strong>, which I have seen in early March in other years here. The Purple Heather had several species of bees and flies today as well, including the early Black-tailed Bumblebee, <\/strong>Bombus melanopygus<\/em><\/strong>, and Yellow-faced Bumblebee, <\/strong>B. vosnesenskii<\/em><\/strong>.  I have attached a photo of B. vosnesenskii<\/em><\/strong>, and a Drone Fly<\/strong> Eristalis tenax<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>perched nearby.<\/p>\n

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Yellow-faced Bumblebee Bombus vosnesenskii <\/em> (Hym.: Apidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Drone Fly Eristalis tenax <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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