{"id":11106,"date":"2020-06-15T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T23:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11106"},"modified":"2020-06-16T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:47:23","slug":"june-15-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11106","title":{"rendered":"June 15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 June 15<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna sends a beautiful photograph of a clearwing moth.\u00a0 They are not seen very often, and are hard to photograph, so this is quite an achievement.\u00a0 We have several native clearwings (Sesiidae), but this one is a rather recent European invader, Synanthedon myopaeformis<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong> known variously as the Red-belted Clearwing <\/strong>or the Apple Clearwing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Red-belted Clearwing Synanthedon myopaeformis<\/em> (Lep.: Sesiidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary has also been photographing some bees in the Kemp Lake area.\u00a0 Thanks to Linclon Best and Annie Pang for identifications.<\/p>\n

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

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Bombus caliginosus <\/em>or vosnesenskii <\/em> (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Rosemay Jorna<\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E photographed these beetles and a spider near Sooke.\u00a0 Scott Gilmore identifies the beetles as Pidonia scripta<\/em><\/strong>. <\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>The spider is young, which makes identification difficult, but Robb Bennett says probably Misumena<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>though possibly Mecaphesa<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Why is the spider facing away from the beetles?\u00a0 Is it frightened, or hasn’t it noticed them, or is it being cunning?\u00a0 One viewer suggests that it is just embarrassed at possibly being mistaken for a voyeur.<\/p>\n

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Pidonia scripta <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)<\/p>\n

and probably Misumena <\/em>sp. (Ara.: Thomisidae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Rosemary Jorna photographed the following fearsome-looking mygalomorph spider near Kemp Lake:<\/p>\n

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Antrodiaetus pacificus<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Ara. \u2013 Myg.:\u00a0 Antrodiaetidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Antrodiaetus pacificus<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Ara. \u2013 Myg.:\u00a0 Antrodiaetidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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2020 June 15 \u00a0 \u00a0 Rosemary Jorna sends a beautiful photograph of a clearwing moth.\u00a0 They are not seen very often, and are hard to photograph, so this is quite an achievement.\u00a0 We have several native clearwings (Sesiidae), but this one is a rather recent European invader, Synanthedon myopaeformis, known variously as the Red-belted Clearwing […]<\/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-11106","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\/11106","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=11106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11115,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions\/11115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}