{"id":13974,"date":"2021-05-17T10:37:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13974"},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:47:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:47:35","slug":"may-17-morning-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13974","title":{"rendered":"May 17 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>2021 May 17 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Aziza Cooper writes:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Here is a small moth seen today, May 16, at Thomas Francis \/ Freeman King Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Also here are two photos of Western Spring Azures,&nbsp;same date and place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 402px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"402\" originalheight=\"296\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-48.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mesoleuca gratulata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 404px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"404\" originalheight=\"300\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-49.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Spring Azure <em>Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 395px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"395\" originalheight=\"291\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-50.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Spring Azure <em>Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Below are photographs of three flies obtained by Rosemary Jorna near Kemp Lake on May 5.&nbsp;&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t managed to get identifications of them.&nbsp; If anyone can help, please do let us know.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the meantime, I am making wild guesses   at them at Family level &#8211; please don&#8217;t take them for definitive identifications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; My guess at the first one, below, is probably Tachinidae, though maybe Calliphoridae.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 561px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"561\" originalheight=\"421\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-51.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fly 1 (Diptera)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fly 2 may possibly be Syrphidae:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 587px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"587\" originalheight=\"440\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-52.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fly 2 (Diptera)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; And I think Fly 3 is probably Muscidae &#8211; maybe <em>Helina <\/em>&nbsp;or <em>Phaonia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 566px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"566\" originalheight=\"437\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pastedImage-53.png\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fly&nbsp;3 (Diptera)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 May 17 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper writes: &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Here is a small moth seen today, May 16, at Thomas Francis \/ Freeman King Park. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Also here are two photos of Western Spring Azures,&nbsp;same date and place. &nbsp; Mesoleuca gratulata (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper &nbsp; Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/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-13974","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\/13974","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=13974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}