{"id":10578,"date":"2020-05-01T15:52:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T22:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10578"},"modified":"2020-05-01T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T22:56:24","slug":"may-1-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10578","title":{"rendered":"May 1 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 May 1 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Tetracis cervinaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Egira simplex<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Eupithecia &#8211; <\/em><\/strong>probably <strong><em>graefii<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Hyalophora euryalus <\/em><\/strong>(different, fresher individual than two days ago)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Melanolophia imitata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Nola minna<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>5 Tyria jacobaeae <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 538px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"447\" originalheight=\"446\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-2.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 544px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"544\" originalheight=\"377\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-3.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tyria jacobaeae <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 550px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"549\" originalheight=\"278\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-4.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tetracis cervinaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 314px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"280\" originalheight=\"446\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-5.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira simplex<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a syrphid fly from Mr E.&nbsp; Thanks to Dr Jeff Skevington for confirming its identification as a dark morph  <strong><em>Toxomerus <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"452\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"432.2974358974359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-6.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Toxomerus <\/em>sp.&nbsp; (Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying this <strong>click beetle<\/strong>, photographed by Mr E, as  <strong><em>Selatosomus suckleyi<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"576\" originalheight=\"465\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-7.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<em>Selatosomus suckleyi <\/em>(Col.: Elateridae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image014.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"436\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"416.99487179487176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-8.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Selatosomus suckleyi <\/em>(Col.: Elateridae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image016.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"540\" originalheight=\"409\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-9.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Selatosomus suckleyi <\/em>(Col.: Elateridae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Here are some Hymenoptera, photographed by Mr E.&nbsp; Hymenoptera species are so numerous, and not all well studied, that it is not always possible to be certain from a photograph of an identification at species level.&nbsp; Thanks to Matthias Buck for a good   go!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 556px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image018.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"556\" originalheight=\"417\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-10.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ichneumonid&nbsp; (Hym.: Ichneumonidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 543px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image020.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"543\" originalheight=\"466\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-11.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nomad bee <em>Nomada <\/em>sp.(Hym.: Apidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image022.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"438\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"418.9076923076923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-12.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Giant sawfly <em>Abia<\/em> sp (Hym.: Cimbicidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image024.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"586\" originalheight=\"439\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-13.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sawfly (Hym.: Tenthredinidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 May 1 afternoon &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning: &nbsp; 1 Tetracis cervinaria 1 Egira simplex 1 Eupithecia &#8211; probably graefii 1 Hyalophora euryalus (different, fresher individual than two days ago) 1 Melanolophia imitata 1 Nola minna 5 Tyria jacobaeae &nbsp; Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr &nbsp; Tyria jacobaeae (Lep.: [&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-10578","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\/10578","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=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}