{"id":1399,"date":"2015-03-05T00:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T08:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:11","slug":"march-04-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"March 04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2014 March 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes:&nbsp; I was at home today and saw lots of activity on the heather and other early blooms. I saw at least three species of bumblebee, plus many flies. I have attached a picture of a small moth with yellowish hindwings that we see every year in spring- like a miniature butterfly. Also attached are pictures of two flies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum comments:&nbsp; The moth is <strong><em>Epirrhoe plebeculata<\/em><\/strong>, one of the early spring geometrids that often flies at the same time as <em>Mesoleuca gratulata<\/em>.&nbsp; I have been trying for years to find the caterpillar.&nbsp; It is said to feed on <em>Galium<\/em>, like other members of its genus, but I have usually seen the moth flying in areas where there is no sign of any species of <em>Galium<\/em>, and I suspect the caterpillar may have some other foodplant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Anyone who rears caterpillars will recognize the large bristly fly as a species of <strong>tachinid<\/strong>.&nbsp; These are flies whose maggots are internal parasitoids of insect larvae, including butterfly and moth caterpillars.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t know the smaller fly; it may be a small syrphid, but I&rsquo;m not sure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-108\" title=\"Epirrhoe.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image54f79fe2f3b3b.jpeg\" alt=\"\" name=\"\" width=\"588.8\" height=\"392.15\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image54f79fe2f3b3b.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image54f79fe2f3b3b-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image54f79fe2f3b3b-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Epirrhoe plebeculata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-109\" title=\"tachinid.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image54f79fe300563.jpeg\" alt=\"\" name=\"\" width=\"588.8\" height=\"392.72499999999997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image54f79fe300563.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image54f79fe300563-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image54f79fe300563-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tachinid fly (Dip.: Tachinidae) Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-110\" title=\"fly.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image54f79fe300ee0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" name=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image54f79fe300ee0.jpeg 582w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image54f79fe300ee0-300x202.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Unknown fly<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014 March 4 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes:&nbsp; I was at home today and saw lots of activity on the heather and other early blooms. I saw at least three species of bumblebee, plus many flies. I have attached a picture of a small moth with yellowish hindwings that we see every year in spring- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","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\/1399","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=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}