{"id":11318,"date":"2020-07-01T19:09:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T02:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11318"},"modified":"2021-05-27T09:07:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T16:07:11","slug":"july-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11318","title":{"rendered":"July 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>This may be Canada Day, but it also seems to be Crab Spider Day, for two separate observers have sent a bunch of photos of Misumena vatia.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>This spider lurks in flowers and often takes on the colour of the flower within which it lurks, as in this photograph of one on an Ox-eye Daisy:<\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0\u00a0 The next one, on Lavender, doesn’t seem to have had much success with any attempt at cryptic coloration.<\/p>\n

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Misumena vatia<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae) Richard Rycraft<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0The next one is also white on a purple flower \u2013 except that it does closely resemble the white central part of the Harvest Brodiaea flower, enough to deceive a very substantial prey.<\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0\u00a0 I recognized the next spider as a crab spider, but I didn’t think it was M. vatia<\/em> (writes Jeremy Tatum) until Dr Robb Bennett told me that it is indeed M. vatia<\/em> \u2013 but a male rather than the more familiar female.\u00a0\u00a0 Its first pair of legs are remarkably long (part of the left front leg is hidden by a petal).\u00a0 The spider is missing its second leg on the right hand side.<\/p>\n

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Male Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 On June 29 I saw a Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> nectaring on the Philadelphus <\/em>bush at the entrance to the Mount Tolmie reservoir \u2013 noteworthy only because it was the first one I had seen this year.\u00a0 On June 30 I saw a Satyr Comma <\/strong>along the Lochside Trail between Lohbrunner’s and Blenkinsop Lake;\u00a0 I also found another Red Admiral caterpillar<\/strong> on the nettles there.\u00a0 Today I noticed that the Painted Lady <\/strong>pupa, which was shown on June 24 morning, was showing a lot of colour \u2013 next photograph:<\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 After a few hours I noted that the butterfly within was becoming separated from the pupal shell as described by Jochen M\u00f6hr in the movie he made last year of the emergence of a Painted Lady butterfly from its chrysalis. This appearance shows that eclosion (emergence) is imminent.\u00a0 [Biologists please note:\u00a0 The noun is eclosion;\u00a0 the verb is eclode.] \u00a0Jochen’s movie can be seen in the entry for 2020 January 1 (currently on page 35).\u00a0 I waited patiently with my camera at the ready.\u00a0 Then I went to unload my laundry from the washer and put it in the dryer, a process that took three minutes max. When I came back:<\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 I didn’t manage to photograph the upperside.\u00a0 I put the butterfly on the thistles just down the road from the Jeffery Pine on Mount Tolmie, so if you see a pristine fresh Painted Lady there, that’ll be it.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a young caterpillar of a Pale Tiger Swallowtail:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s a long-horned beetle photographed by Mr E, and kindly identified by Scott Gilmore as Lepturopsis dolorosa<\/em><\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0\u00a0 Mark Wynja writes:\u00a0 On the afternoon of Sunday June 28th Mike Yip and I found a Roadside Skipper<\/strong> and a Dun Skipper<\/strong>. \u00a0Area accessed by NW Bay Logging Road in Nanoose. Follow the signs to Rhododendron\u00a0Lake; \u00a0they were\u00a0300 m past the 5 km sign on that road.\u00a0 These logging roads are open until further notice on weekends from 8am to 6pm.<\/p>\n

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Roadside Skipper Amblyscirtes vialis <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Here’s a caterpillar found on Ninebark at Swan Lake today:<\/p>\n

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Egira crucialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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