{"id":11754,"date":"2020-08-04T15:41:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T22:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11754"},"modified":"2020-08-04T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T22:46:59","slug":"august-4-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11754","title":{"rendered":"August 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   Two butterflies and a moth from Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin:<\/p>\n

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Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Oligia divesta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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  Jody Wells photographed a Painted Lady <\/strong>near the reservoir at Longview Farms, Wallace Drive:<\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.:  Nymphalidae)  Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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   Some butterflies and a fly photographed by Aziza Cooper on Mount Washington last week.  Thanks to Dr Jeff Skevington for identification of the fly, and to David Harris for the identification of the skipper.<\/p>\n

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Branded Skipper Hesperia comma <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Great Arctic Oeneis nevadensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Male hover fly Sericomyia chalcopyga <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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   Rick and Libby Avis came across this grisly scene along the Stamp River on Sunday.  It is the cocoon formed by the larva of an ichneumon wasp (probably subfamily Campopleginae), after eating its way out of a lepidopterous caterpillar, whose skin can be seen above it.<\/p>\n

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Ichneumonid cocoon (Hym.: Ichneumonidae – Campopleginae)  Rick Avis<\/p>\n

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   Rosemary Jorna sends pictures from Sheilds Lake of a rather pale Banana Slug, <\/strong>some carpenter ants, <\/strong>and a bumble bee identified for us by Annie Pang.<\/p>\n

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Carpenter ants Camponotus <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Formicidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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2020 August 4      Two butterflies and a moth from Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin:   Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr   Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr   Oligia divesta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr     Jody Wells photographed a Painted Lady near the reservoir at Longview Farms, Wallace […]<\/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-11754","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\/11754","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=11754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}