{"id":1211,"date":"2015-04-30T02:31:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T09:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:08","slug":"april-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1211","title":{"rendered":"April 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 April 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Talking of chalcidoids &#8211; which we were on April 27 &#8211; I came across some myself today.&nbsp; On March 8 I showed a batch of eggs of the Vapourer Moth <em>Orgyia antiqua<\/em>.&nbsp; Well, a whole bunch of parasitoidal chalcidoid wasps came out of them today.&nbsp; From front of head to tip of abdomen, they were a little less than 1 mm in length.&nbsp; The wings extended a little bit more behind, and the antennae projected  forward, but including wingtips and antennae the total length was still less than 2 mm.&nbsp; They were very active and, though I tried, I just couldn&#8217;t get a photo of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I did get photos of a couple of insects.&nbsp; The first is a bright green <strong> maggot of a hoverfly<\/strong> from Rithet&#8217;s Bog.&nbsp; I might at one time have called it <em>Catabomba<\/em>, but I&#8217;m not sure whether that name is still valid.&nbsp; The other is a micro moth from Snowberry on Mount Tolmie.&nbsp; Thanks to Eric LaGasa for identifying it.&nbsp; He writes:&nbsp; Your image is an example of the plain-Jane version of the <strong>Orange<\/strong><strong> Tortrix, <\/strong><strong><em>Argyrotaenia franciscana<\/em><\/strong> (was <em>A. citrana<\/em> a while back).&nbsp; It&#8217;s rather ubiquitous around here (Washington) on a huge range of hosts, and occurs in an interesting mix of wing patterns (<a href=\"http:\/\/mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu\/species.php?hodges=3612\">http:\/\/mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu\/species.php?hodges=3612<\/a>  ).<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"796\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Catabomba.JPG\" height=\"390.5706666666666\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image554193fc52af1.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Hoverfly maggot (Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"800\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"tortricid1.JPG\" height=\"392.5333333333333\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image554193fc53364.jpeg\"> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Argyrotaenia franciscana<\/em><em> <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Ken Vaughan writes:&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a couple from Swan Lake on 22 Apr 15: a teneral male <strong>Pacific Forktail<\/strong> and a male <strong>California Darner<\/strong>. Very little variety for Odonata as of now, but that will change.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"480\" originalwidth=\"316\" name=\"\" title=\"damselfly.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image554193fc54b18.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">Pacific Forktail <em>Ischnura cervula<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ken Vaughan <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"480\" originalwidth=\"620\" name=\"\" title=\"dragonfly.jpg\" height=\"455.84516129032255\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image554193fc54dab.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">California Darner <em>Rhionaeschna californica <\/em>(Odo.:Aeshnidae)&nbsp; Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore writes from Upper Lantzville: Yesterday (April 28) I came across a couple of interesting critters (see pictures below). A <strong>Root Maggot Fly<\/strong> and a green <strong>stink bug<\/strong>.&nbsp; It was also a six-species-of-butterfly day with <strong>Cabbage White, Pacific Azure (= Western Spring Azure), Red Admiral, Painted Lady, Mourning Cloak <\/strong>and <strong>Western Brown Elfin.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>[Jeremy Tatum comments &#8211; We&#8217;ve had several zero-species-of-butterfly days recently down here in Victoria.]<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"717\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Anthomyia1 Gillmore.jpg\" height=\"351.808\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image554193fc5526e.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Root Maggot Fly&nbsp; <em>Anthomyia <\/em><em>procellaris <\/em>(Dip.: Anthomyiidae)&nbsp; Scott Gillmore<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"551\" originalwidth=\"865\" name=\"\" title=\"Anthomyia2 Gillmore.jpg\" height=\"375.0621965317919\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image554193fc55933.jpeg\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\">Root Maggot Fly&nbsp; <em>Anthomyia <\/em><em>procellaris <\/em>(Dip.: Anthomyiidae)&nbsp; Scott Gillmore<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"983\" originalwidth=\"1015\" name=\"\" title=\"Pentatomid.jpg\" height=\"570.2368472906403\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image554193fc55d6e.jpeg\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image014.jpg\">Stink bug <em>Zicrona<\/em> sp. (probably <em>caerulea<\/em>)&nbsp; (Hem.: Pentatomidae) Scott Gillmore<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I notice that we have had several flies (Diptera) on this site recently, so, to continue in this vein:&nbsp; When a butterfly or moth caterpillar is ready to pupate, its outermost skin peels off, revealing the pupa underneath.&nbsp; But when  a brachyceran fly maggot is ready to pupate, it doesn&#8217;t slough its outmost skin.&nbsp; Instead the skin hardens to form the pupa, which is called a <em>puparium<\/em>.&nbsp; The photograph below shows two fly puparia, which I photographed today.&nbsp; To protect sensitivities, I shall not go into further details of the life-history here (Rated PG).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"877\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"tachinid pu.JPG\" height=\"430.31466666666665\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image554193fc5660a.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image016.jpg\">Fly puparia&nbsp; (Dip.: Tachinidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 April 29 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Talking of chalcidoids &#8211; which we were on April 27 &#8211; I came across some myself today.&nbsp; On March 8 I showed a batch of eggs of the Vapourer Moth Orgyia antiqua.&nbsp; Well, a whole bunch of parasitoidal chalcidoid wasps came out of them today.&nbsp; From front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","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=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}