{"id":10168,"date":"2020-03-27T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10168"},"modified":"2020-03-27T16:15:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:15:59","slug":"march-27-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10168","title":{"rendered":"March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna writes from Kemp Lake:  Yesterday  30 or more of these very small flies were flying around the Huckleberry Bush in our yard. Most of them were carrying a bundle and would alight briefly before taking flight again. They were too small, quick and against the light. At first I thought mating; but now the camera is downloaded it looks more like dinner time. <\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  This is a fly of the Family Empididae<\/strong>.  <\/strong>It would need a specialist to identify it with any certainty, although I think it is probably in the eponymous genus Empis<\/em><\/strong>, and there is a reasonable possibility that it is Empis barbatoides<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Maybe Empis barbatoides <\/em>(Dip.: Empididae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Maybe Empis barbatoides <\/em>(Dip.: Empididae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr’s March 27 tally from Metchosin:<\/p>\n

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1 Acerra normalis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Egirra crucialis (picture attached)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Eupithecia spp. (one picture attached)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Eupithecia ravocostaliata\/nevadata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

7 Hydriomena manzanita<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

6 Venusia obsoleta<\/em><\/strong>\/<\/strong> pearsalli<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Eupithecia annulata\/ochracea <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Egira crucialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2020 March 27      Rosemary Jorna writes from Kemp Lake:  Yesterday  30 or more of these very small flies were flying around the Huckleberry Bush in our yard. Most of them were carrying a bundle and would alight briefly before taking flight again. They were too small, quick and against the light. At 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-10168","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\/10168","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=10168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}