{"id":11018,"date":"2020-06-06T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T23:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11018"},"modified":"2020-06-07T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T22:33:21","slug":"june-6-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11018","title":{"rendered":"June 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 June 6
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n

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1 Adela septentrionella<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Nadata\u00a0gibbosa <\/em><\/strong>(still the same)<\/p>\n

1 Protitame subalbaria <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Tyria jacobaeae<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Protitame subalbaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jody Wells sends a miscellany from “airport-ish”!<\/p>\n

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Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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Cardinal Meadowhawk Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I had to get Dr Rob Cannings to identify the next three more difficult ones!<\/p>\n

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Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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Young female Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Scott Gilmore didn\u2019t need to see much of the beetle below to identify it as Nicrophorus<\/em> sp.<\/strong>\u00a0 Dr Heather Proctor, University of Alberta, writes:\u00a0 Wow, that is a massive load of mites! The beetle is a burying beetle of the genus\u00a0Nicrophorus <\/em>(Silphidae). On BugGuide there are two species illustrated from BC, N. defodians<\/em> and N. investigator<\/em>. Unfortunately, the mites cover up the characters needed to differentiate between them. The good news is that I can identify the\u00a0mites to genus because of their host: they are deutonymphal Poecilochirus<\/em> <\/strong>(Mesostigmata: Parasitidae). Despite the family name, they aren’t parasites, just phoretic hitchhikers (though in numbers this large they probably do cause the beetle some problems by interfering with locomotion). The mites are catching a ride to the next place where the beetle will bury a carcass, where they will dismount, eat nematodes and fly eggs\/larvae, mature, mate and lay eggs. The next generation of mites departs on the young Nicrophorus <\/em>once they have matured.<\/p>\n

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Sexton beetle Nicrophorus <\/em>sp. (Col.: Silphidae)<\/p>\n

with mites Poecilochirus<\/em> <\/strong>(Mesostigmata: Parasitidae)<\/p>\n

Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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Sexton beetle Nicrophorus <\/em>sp. (Col.: Silphidae)<\/p>\n

with mites Poecilochirus<\/em> <\/strong>(Mesostigmata: Parasitidae)<\/p>\n

Jody Wells<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jody writes: I brought home cattails to replenish nesting materials around my window bird feeder\u2026.after I had installed \u2026 I noted\u00a0 the fluff was moving\u2026but no breeze\u2026. The immatures look very ominous\u2026like something one does not want to have in one’s hair.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum comments:\u00a0 Yes, I agree, I do not want these in my hair.<\/p>\n

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Cattail Bug with nymphs Chilacis typhae <\/em>(Hem.: Lygaeidae) Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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Cattail Bug with nymphs Chilacis typhae <\/em>(Hem.: Lygaeidae) Jody Wells<\/p>\n


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Arion rufus<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0 Yesterday afternoon, June 5, there were several dozen dragonflies flying around at Gore Park.\u00a0 These included two Eight Spotted Skimmers\u00a0<\/strong>Libellula forensis<\/em><\/strong>, at least a couple of Western<\/strong> Pondhawks\u00a0<\/strong>Erythemis<\/em><\/strong> collocata,<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0several meadowhawks, mostly Cardinal Meadowkhawks\u00a0<\/strong>Sympetrum illotum<\/em><\/strong> and at least one Yellow-legged Meadowhawk <\/strong>Sympetrum vicinum<\/em><\/strong>, and several darner species that I couldn’t identify to the species level.<\/p>\n

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Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday afternoon, June 5th<\/sup>,\u00a0 I checked Eddy’s Storage on Stelly’s Cross Road, and I found three Field Crescents<\/strong>.\u00a0 Today, June 6th<\/sup>, around 1 p.m. a Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> flew past my Mom’s yard\u00a0on Wascana Street.\u00a0 [And I still haven’t seen a swallowtail\u00a0 –\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum]<\/p>\n

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2020 June 6 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:   1 Adela septentrionella 1 Nadata\u00a0gibbosa (still the same) 1 Protitame subalbaria 1 Tyria jacobaeae   Protitame subalbaria (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr \u00a0\u00a0 Jody Wells sends a miscellany from “airport-ish”!   Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia (Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells Cardinal Meadowhawk Sympetrum illotum […]<\/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-11018","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\/11018","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=11018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11034,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions\/11034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}