{"id":11216,"date":"2020-06-24T10:43:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11216"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:46:11","slug":"june-24-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11216","title":{"rendered":"June 24 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 June 24 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Because of a computer glitch, only just discovered, the June 23<\/strong> entry was not posted yesterday.   I have just posted it now, so you’ll find it beneath this June 24 morning posting.  Not to be missed!<\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna photographed this fly in the Kemp Lake area, June.   Dr Rob Cannings writes:  It is an asilid<\/strong>,…. a common western species (even in city gardens) called Eudioctria<\/em><\/strong> sackeni<\/em><\/strong>. Males and females are coloured somewhat differently and, in addition, it comes in a couple of colour morphs, so its appearance can be confusing.<\/p>\n

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Robber fly Eudioctria sackeni <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   Mr E sends photographs of two beetles, kindly identified for us by Scott Gilmore:<\/p>\n

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Long-horned beetle Phymatodes <\/em>sp. (Col.: Cerambycidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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Darkling beetle Eleodes <\/em>sp. (Col.: Tenebrionidae)  Mr E<\/p>\n

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   Mr E also photographed – something!<\/em>  So far, we are fairly sure that it is Kingdom Animalia, but beyond that we are a little less certain.  However, we think it is probably a beetle grub, Order Coleoptera.  Any advance on that, anyone?<\/p>\n

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Beetle grub?   Mr E<\/p>\n

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   Richard Rycraft sends a picture of a moth from Oak Bay.  Libby Avis and Jeremy Tatum agree that it is an unusually dark specimen of Noctua pronuba <\/em><\/strong>– clinched when Richard recalled that he saw a flash of orange when the moth flew.  This is almost as dark a specimen as Val George’s of June 18, also from Oak Bay. Two specimens from Victoria, May 25 and May 31, were unusually pale.  In this a difference between municipalities?!<\/p>\n

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Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Richard Rycraft<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum shows a chrysalis (Greek Chrysos<\/em> = gold) of a Painted Lady:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  This morning I found a California Tortoiseshell <\/strong>having a sleep behind my living-room curtain – which is where traditionally one is supposed to find hibernating nymphalids during the winer months.  I managed to persuade it to walk sleepily on to a stick, where I photographed its underside.  It looked so peacefully asleep that I didn’t disturb it to attempt an upperside. I took it out to Playfair Park, Cumberland Road, Saanich, where we hope it will wake up when the Sun comes out and it should find some nectar sources there.<\/p>\n

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California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2020 June 24 morning      Because of a computer glitch, only just discovered, the June 23 entry was not posted yesterday.   I have just posted it now, so you’ll find it beneath this June 24 morning posting.  Not to be missed!      Rosemary Jorna photographed this fly in the Kemp Lake area, June.   […]<\/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-11216","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\/11216","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=11216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}