{"id":12259,"date":"2020-09-19T10:54:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T17:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12259"},"modified":"2020-09-21T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T23:13:07","slug":"september-19-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12259","title":{"rendered":"September 19 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 September 19 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Apologies for no Invert Alerts for two days.\u00a0 The problem was not no insects.\u00a0 Quite the opposite \u2013 too many for me to process\u00a0 – a nice problem to have!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Some photographs from Ian Cooper, between September 05 – 10, 2020, on the Galloping Goose Trail between Seaton Street and Tillicum Road.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr Jeff Skevington tells us that both of the flies below are introduced species, Myathropa<\/em> a recent arrival.<\/p>\n

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Syritta pipiens <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Myathropa florea <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Megachile perihirta<\/em>\u00a0 (Hym.: Megachilidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Bombus <\/em>(possibly occidentalis<\/em>)(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Bombus vosnesenskii <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Honey Bee Apis mellifera <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Probably Ceratina <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Jochen M\u00f6hr’s moths from Metchosin September 18 morning (no photographs):<\/p>\n

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1 Eupithecia <\/em><\/strong>sp<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Dryotype opina <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Ennomos magnaria <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Feltia jaculifera \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

2 Noctua pronuba <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

3 Plemyria georgii <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

3 Pleromelloida cinerea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Xestia finatimis \/infimatis <\/em><\/strong>complex<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Judy Spearing tells us that she and Parks Staff found five caterpillars of Anise Swallowtail <\/strong>on Water Parsley Oenanthe sarmentosa <\/em>\u00a0in Bow Park yesterday.\u00a0 Anise Swallowtails have been so scarce in recent years that it is great news to hear of caterpillars in such a suburban locality.\u00a0 Anise Swallowtail is partially double-brooded, so this will be a second brood of the year.\u00a0 It is not unusual to find caterpillars in September or even later, and there is a good supply of Water Parsley in Bow Park for them to feed on, so the caterpillars stand a good chance of survival.\u00a0 Viewers might like to keep a look out on Fennel \u2013 another favorite foodplant of this species.<\/p>\n

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

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

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\u00a0\u00a0 Libby Avis writes:\u00a0 Went for a walk yesterday September 17th in a swampy area in the Alberni Valley. Found two caterpillars of Spiramater lutra<\/em><\/strong> on Bracken Pteridium aquilinum<\/em>, about 100 yards apart. Both appeared to be feeding and were well camouflaged against the stem of the bracken.<\/p>\n

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Spiramater lutra <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/p>\n

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Spiramater lutra <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/p>\n

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Spiramater lutra <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/p>\n

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Spiramater lutra <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/p>\n

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Spiramater lutra <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs of a Jumping Bristletail <\/strong>\u00a0from Metchosin.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a hexapod (but not, in today’s classification, an insect) in the Order Microcoryphia.\u00a0 In spite of the excellent quality of the photographs, I don’t know if we’ll be able to find anyone to identify it to species. I think the central caudal appendage is broken \u2013 it should be much longer.<\/p>\n

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Jumping bristletail (Microcoryphia)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Jumping bristletail (Microcoryphia)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen also sends a photograph of two crane flies<\/strong>, which I don’t think are the usual Tipula paludosa.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Crane flies (Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen’s moths from Metchosin September 19 morning:<\/p>\n

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1 Agriphila straminella\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Emmelina monodactyla<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

5 Fishia\u00a0illocata <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Homorthodes furfurata\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

4 Neoalcis californiaria\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Noctua pronuba\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Pleromelloida cinerea <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Xestia finatimis\/ infimatis complex<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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2020 September 19 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Apologies for no Invert Alerts for two days.\u00a0 The problem was not no insects.\u00a0 Quite the opposite \u2013 too many for me to process\u00a0 – a nice problem to have! \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Some photographs from Ian Cooper, between September 05 – 10, 2020, on the Galloping Goose Trail between […]<\/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-12259","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\/12259","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=12259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12298,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions\/12298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}