{"id":11785,"date":"2020-08-07T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11785"},"modified":"2020-08-08T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T17:03:18","slug":"august-7-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11785","title":{"rendered":"August 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 August 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr reports from Metchosin:<\/p>\n

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This morning:<\/p>\n

2 Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Perizoma curvilinea\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yesterday afternoon:<\/p>\n

2 Ochlodes sylvanoides<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Vanessa cardui <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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And this afternoon, a fine caterpillar:<\/p>\n

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Orgyia pseudotsugata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Lymantriinae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 And here’s a nice miscellany from Gordon Hart in the Highlands.\u00a0 The centre-stage insect is an antlion<\/strong>.\u00a0 Don’t know the exact species.\u00a0 Don’t think we can identify the noctuid moth, which is just a little out of the depth of focus.\u00a0 The small insect nearest the right hand edge of the photograph is, I think, a culicid<\/strong>, better known to most of us as a mosquito.\u00a0 Never thought we’d find out what the other small flies are, but Libby Avis identified them!\u00a0\u00a0 They are dark-winged fungus gnats<\/strong> (Dip.: Sciaridae).\u00a0\u00a0 We can even make out the wing venation on one of them.<\/p>\n

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Antlion (Neu.: Myrmeleontidae) and others\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Crab spiders seem to be able to capture and subdue some quite large prey.\u00a0 Yesterday Rosemary Jorna saw two of them, each with a large bumble bee, in her garden in the Kemp Lake area.<\/p>\n

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Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae) with Bombus vosnesenskii <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Random thoughts (Jeremy Tatum):<\/p>\n

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How do you spell fishfly, bumble bee, etc.?<\/p>\n

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I think the rule that I’ll follow on Invert Alert is this.\u00a0 If it is a fly, then “fly” is a separate word.\u00a0 If it is not a fly, “fly” is attached.<\/p>\n

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Thus\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 House Fly\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Butterfly<\/p>\n

Drone Fly\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dragonfly<\/p>\n

Horse Fly\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stonefly<\/p>\n

Hover Fly\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fishfly<\/p>\n

Dung Fly\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Caddisfly<\/p>\n

etc., usw.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By this rule, I suppose it should be Bumble Bee<\/p>\n

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Talking of stoneflies, we’ve had only three photographs of them in the ten years of Invert Alert.\u00a0 There are usually lots at Goldstream\u00a0 Park.\u00a0\u00a0 Photographers please note.<\/p>\n

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In the days of Moses Harris (1730-88), the word “fly” was used for any insect, in much the same way as today some people misuse the word “bug” to mean any insect.\u00a0 Thus Moses Harris wrote that “The Camberwell Beauty is one of the scarcest Flies in England.”<\/p>\n

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2020 August 7 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr reports from Metchosin:   This morning: 2 Neoalcis californiaria 1 Perizoma curvilinea\u00a0   Yesterday afternoon: 2 Ochlodes sylvanoides 1 Vanessa cardui \u00a0 Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr And this afternoon, a fine caterpillar:   Orgyia pseudotsugata (Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Lymantriinae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr \u00a0\u00a0 And here’s […]<\/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-11785","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\/11785","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=11785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11791,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions\/11791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}