{"id":11005,"date":"2020-06-04T16:27:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T23:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11005"},"modified":"2020-06-05T09:16:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:16:26","slug":"june-4-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11005","title":{"rendered":"June 4 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 June 4 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 These are the spiders and bees that I was able to photograph on the Galloping Goose yesterday afternoon (between Charters & Todd Creek Trestles).\u00a0 Several of the moths were sharing the Yarrow with the dining crab spider, and one\u00a0 seemed unconcerned when the spider finished the meal dumping the moth over the side and turning for more of the same.\u00a0 I blew on the moth and it flew. The black dust around the spider (second photograph near bottom right) is the moth scales.<\/p>\n

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Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae) eyeing<\/p>\n

\u00a0Adela septentrionella <\/em>(Lep.: Adelidae)<\/p>\n

Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae) eating<\/p>\n

\u00a0Adela septentrionella <\/em>(Lep.: Adelidae)<\/p>\n

Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae) eating<\/p>\n

\u00a0Bombus <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Apidae)<\/p>\n

Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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The next bee (identified by Annie Pang and Lincoln Best) looks safe \u2013 for the moment:<\/p>\n

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Bombus\u00a0<\/em>melanopygus<\/em> (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Below is a male Satyr Comma<\/strong>, underside.\u00a0 The undersides of the sexes of the commas are different, although much more so in satyrus<\/em> than in the other commas.\u00a0 I reared two of them from caterpillar, hoping to show the undersides of the two sexes side by side – but inevitably the two turned out to be the same sex.\u00a0\u00a0 When I showed a caterpillar from Lochside Drive on May 22, I wrote:\u00a0 “One just hopes that Saanich will not cut or spray the verges.”\u00a0\u00a0 When I went to Lochside Drive to release the adult butterfly, Saanich were right there, cutting the edges, with a big machine.\u00a0 I spoke to the lady who was doing it, and I asked if she would spare the nettles, and I showed her the butterfly.\u00a0 She was quite impressed, and she agreed to cut the vegetation on the verges only where it was seriously encroaching on the trail and impeding cyclists and pedestrians, and she did indeed keep her word.\u00a0 There is hope!\u00a0 The biggest danger to the nettles and caterpillars now is the large number of racing cyclists (known in the UK as Lycra Louts) who throw up large clouds of dust which covers the nettles and other vegetation.\u00a0 The ordinary cyclist out for a ride is not a problem.\u00a0 It’s the ones who use the trail as a racing track.<\/p>\n

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Male Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2020 June 4 afternoon \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 These are the spiders and bees that I was able to photograph on the Galloping Goose yesterday afternoon (between Charters & Todd Creek Trestles).\u00a0 Several of the moths were sharing the Yarrow with the dining crab spider, and one\u00a0 seemed unconcerned when the spider finished the […]<\/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-11005","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\/11005","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=11005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11012,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions\/11012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}