{"id":11402,"date":"2020-07-09T16:15:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T23:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2020-07-15T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T22:48:34","slug":"july-9-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11402","title":{"rendered":"July 9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 July 9<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jody Wells sends a photograph of a tick <\/strong>from near the airport.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The Order Ixodida (ticks) has three Families, and Dr Heather Proctor tells us that this one is in the Family Ixodidae <\/strong>\u2013 which is where, I think, we’ll have to leave it.\u00a0 The other organism, which you might spot in the photograph, is a vertebrate, an Eastern Cottontail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tick (Ixodida:\u00a0 Ixodidae) \u00a0and<\/p>\n

Eastern Cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus<\/em><\/span> (Lagomorpha: Leporidae)<\/p>\n

\u00a0Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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Don Nathan writes:\u00a0 I saw this in my garden (Agnes Street Community Gardens) three days ago.\u00a0 We are grateful to Norman Gems (via Annie Pang) for identifying this as an immature form of the Carolina Grasshopper, <\/strong>whose rather different-looking adult form is more familiar in late summer.<\/p>\n

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Carolina Grasshopper Dissosteira carolina <\/em> (Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Don Nathan<\/p>\n

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Here’s a female Western Pondhawk<\/strong> photographed by Barbara Dashwood in her garden in the Gorge area.<\/p>\n

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Female Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata <\/em> (Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Barbara Dashwood<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna photographed a Bumble Bee <\/strong>in the Kemp Lake area yesterday, dutifully photographing it from several angles.\u00a0 Annie Pang writes:\u00a0 I have ruled out B. fervidus <\/em>because they have black heads and so I do think it is a male B. flavifrons<\/em><\/strong>, Yellow Head Bumble Bee,<\/strong> and I will tell you why I think so.\u00a0 There is no orange band on the abdomen which would indicate a female, and it has a rounded bottom (females have pointy ones with stingers) and no pollen sacs (females pollinate) on hind legs.\u00a0 But that is the best I can do, and I still could be wrong.\u00a0 I just posted the pictures Rosemary took, on Bumble Bees of North America Facebook page.\u00a0 We have some good bee people running it so I am hoping to get a confirm or correct on my ID.\u00a0 I’d forgotten I was a member!\u00a0\u00a0 My compliments to the photographer though.\u00a0 She did well.<\/p>\n

So, we’ll see if Annie gets a response, and thank her for her efforts.<\/p>\n

ADDED LATER:\u00a0\u00a0 Confirmed!\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a male Bombus flavifrons<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Well done, Rosemary!\u00a0 Well done, Annie!<\/p>\n

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Bumble Bee,\u00a0 Bombus flavifrons <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Bumble Bee,\u00a0 Bombus flavifrons <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Bumble Bee,\u00a0 Bombus flavifrons <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Bumble Bee,\u00a0 Bombus flavifrons <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs of Cinnabar Moth <\/strong>caterpillars on Ragwort on Matheson Lake Road.<\/p>\n

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Cinnabar Moth Tyria jacobaeae <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Cinnabar Moth Tyria jacobaeae <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Cinnabar Moth Tyria jacobaeae <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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

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2 Callizzia amorata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Drepana arcuata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Drepana arcuata <\/em>(Lep.: Drepanidae \u2013 Drepaninae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Lacinipolia strigicollis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2020 July 9 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jody Wells sends a photograph of a tick from near the airport.\u00a0 The Order Ixodida (ticks) has three Families, and Dr Heather Proctor tells us that this one is in the Family Ixodidae \u2013 which is where, I think, we’ll have to leave it.\u00a0 The other organism, which you might […]<\/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-11402","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\/11402","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=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11486,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions\/11486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}