{"id":11269,"date":"2020-06-28T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T22:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11269"},"modified":"2020-06-29T10:16:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T17:16:22","slug":"june-28-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11269","title":{"rendered":"June 28"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>A Polyphemus Moth <\/strong>made it on to the front page of the Times-Colonist<\/em> today.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Yesterday I saw\u00a0 Synanthedon bibioniformis <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on a rose bush at Island View Beach.\u00a0 This is one of the clearwing moths (Sesiidae), which I see only rarely and find so exciting whenever I see one.<\/p>\n

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A House Wren in Nanoose has submitted (via<\/em> Mike Yip) several invertebrates for identification.\u00a0 If any\u00a0 viewers can help this bird, please let us know.<\/p>\n

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House Wren and spider.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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House Wren and Eratigena<\/em> spider.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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House Wren and spider.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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House Wren and orthopteran\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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House Wren and moth (I think noctuid) caterpillar.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip adds interesting comments on the question of Ron Flower’s Parnassian butterfly [see May 27, and Val George’s comments on June 25.]:<\/p>\n

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Regarding the smintheus<\/em> vs clodius<\/em> question, there is no doubt that it is a clodius<\/em>. If you examine Ron’s photo closely you will see that the white on the antenna is not clearly defined because it is the reflection of the light on the ridges of the antenna. Compare with the photo (shown below) that I took in 2014. The white is clearly and sharply demarcated from the black.<\/p>\n

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Parnassius smintheus <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Ron:\u00a0 I think you’ll have to go and get more parnassius photos to clinch the matter! (Jeremy Tatum)<\/p>\n

Mr E sends an easy beetle, a difficult beetle and a difficult bug.\u00a0 The easy beetle is Lepturobosca chrysocoma<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong> (Well, fairly easy\u00a0 – it is subject to taxonomic name-changes.\u00a0 Thus, it has appeared earlier in this site under the name Cosmosalia chrysocoma<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

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Lepturobosca chrysocoma <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n


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Lepturobosca chrysocoma <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

(“chrysocoma<\/em>” means “golden hair”)<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The beetle below is obviously a ladybird beetle (Coccinellidae).\u00a0 One would think that identification would be easy, but there are several species, many of which are highly variable, and we can’t quite place this one with full confidence:<\/p>\n

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Unidentified ladybird beetle (Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Unidentified bug (Hem.:\u00a0 possibly Lygaeidae?)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Jody Wells sends photographs of two dragonflies from Martindale Valley:<\/p>\n

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

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Eight-spotted Skimmer Libellula forensis <\/em> (Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n

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


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Anavitrinella pampinaria<\/span> <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

[Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying the above moth, which I had earlier labelled incorrectly.]<\/p>\n


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

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2020 June 28 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Polyphemus Moth made it on to the front page of the Times-Colonist today.   Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Yesterday I saw\u00a0 Synanthedon bibioniformis \u00a0on a rose bush at Island View Beach.\u00a0 This is one of the clearwing moths (Sesiidae), which I see only rarely and find so exciting whenever I […]<\/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-11269","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\/11269","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=11269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11289,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269\/revisions\/11289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}