{"id":11390,"date":"2020-07-08T16:32:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T23:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11390"},"modified":"2020-07-12T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T23:00:37","slug":"july-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11390","title":{"rendered":"July 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna sends pictures of a beetle and two bees to challenge us.\u00a0 Scott Gilmore kindly identified the beetle as a female Rugose Stag Beetle <\/strong>Sinodendron rugosum<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Female Rugose Stag Beetle Sinodendron rugosum <\/em> (Col.: Lucanidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 This bumble bee will, I think, have to remain Bombus <\/em><\/strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0\u00a0 We are grateful to\u00a0 Annie Pang, who points out that the tiny bee below is carrying a ball of pollen on its hind legs, which marks it as belonging to the Family Apidae (the same family as the Honey Bee, all our Bumble Bees as well as a few other bee genera).\u00a0 As well, its dark, nearly hairless body, combined with its tiny size (Rosemary estimates half a cm), marks it as a Ceratina<\/em><\/strong> species, common name “Small Carpenter Bee”.\u00a0 Unlike their more “fuzzy” cousins in the Apidae family of bees, Ceratina<\/em> bees do not make the best pollinators, especially the males.\u00a0 Their lack of body hair and their tiny size do not allow for much transfer of pollen from one plant to another as they nectar and collect pollen.<\/p>\n

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Small Carpenter Bee Ceratina <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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

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Maybe Eudonia commortalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tracy Hueppelsheuser of the BC Ministry of Agriculture in Abbotsford is interested in records of crane flies <\/strong>of all species, so please keep a look out for them and try to get good-quality close-up photographs, which we’ll post here and forward to Tracy.\u00a0 Here are a couple from Jochen in Metchosin.\u00a0 We’ll add identifications if and when we know what species they are.<\/p>\n

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Crane fly (Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Crane fly (Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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  2020 July 8 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna sends pictures of a beetle and two bees to challenge us.\u00a0 Scott Gilmore kindly identified the beetle as a female Rugose Stag Beetle Sinodendron rugosum. \u00a0 Female Rugose Stag Beetle Sinodendron rugosum (Col.: Lucanidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna \u00a0\u00a0 This bumble bee will, I think, have to remain Bombus […]<\/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-11390","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\/11390","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=11390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11430,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390\/revisions\/11430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}