{"id":11513,"date":"2020-07-18T20:06:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11513"},"modified":"2020-07-19T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T17:22:46","slug":"july-18-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11513","title":{"rendered":"July 18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 July 18<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>Invert Alert Problems:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>When Invert Alert was first started ten years ago, it was intended mainly as an “Alert”, so that people could report, for example, a rare butterfly such as a sulphur.\u00a0 Since then it has morphed into a combined photo gallery plus identification service.\u00a0 This is a welcome development, and it’s great fun doing it, but the problem is that at the height of summer the amount of work becomes overwhelming.\u00a0 Thus, when a picture is received, provided that the identity of the insect is known, and provided that there are no computer problems or other difficulties (which almost never<\/span> happens) each photograph takes about ten minutes to process before posting on Invert Alert.\u00a0 Thus, if there are ten photographs, all of known identities, and there are no other difficulties, that amounts to an hour and forty minutes.<\/p>\n

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A particular difficulty at present concerns bees.\u00a0 There are numerous species, each with various castes, that are notoriously difficult to identify, and the three experts that we were able to call upon have now left the Province and are no longer easily available to us.\u00a0 Annie Pang has been doing her best to fill in, but, like most of us, she is an amateur and it is a very large load for her.<\/p>\n

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Today, in particular, I am so overloaded that I have decided that the most practicable thing I can do is not to process most of today’s submissions, and to start again tomorrow with a plea to contributors to limit their submissions to their best-quality work.\u00a0 I don’t want to set a daily limit per contributor, but prefer to let contributors themselves select their best. \u00a0\u00a0Also please remember that some insects, such as our commonest butterflies, are photographed again and again and again. \u00a0I’ll continue to try to identify insects, because I know that in many cases contributors really don’t know.<\/p>\n

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I’m sorry about this, but it is a high-summer problem.\u00a0 We can probably get back to normal when the number of contributions starts to ease off in October or thereabouts.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Now for a very few selections from today’s submissions:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Montana Stanley, a new contributor, sends this picture of a June beetle <\/strong>from Triangle Mountain, July 16.<\/p>\n

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Polyphylla crinita <\/em>(Col.: Scarabaeidae)\u00a0 Montana Stanley<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a picture of a Grey Hairstreak <\/strong>from his Metchosin property:<\/p>\n

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Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a leafcutter bee<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Female Leaf-cutter bee Megachile\u00a0<\/em>sp. (Hym.: Megachilidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Val George sends a photograph of a rather worn female Purplish Copper<\/strong> from Island View Beach today.<\/p>\n

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Female Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides <\/em> (Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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And that, I’m afraid, is all I can manage today! \u00a0(8:00 pm)<\/p>\n

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