{"id":14092,"date":"2021-05-30T16:50:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T23:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14092"},"modified":"2021-06-01T17:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T00:31:58","slug":"may-30-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14092","title":{"rendered":"May 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The caterpillar of Malacosoma californicum <\/em> <\/strong>is so abundant and ubiquitous that we sometimes forget that it is in fact a very handsome beast!\u00a0\u00a0 So here’s a close look at one by Jochen M\u00f6hr:<\/p>\n

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Malacosoma californicum <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Malacosoma californicum <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper photographed a flying insect<\/strong> with very long legs and abdomen at Sooke Potholes on May 29.\u00a0 Well, writes Jeremy Tatum, I agree with the Class Insecta<\/strong>, and I can go further and say Order Hymenoptera<\/strong>.\u00a0 After that it gets a little more diffficult, but I think I’m fairly (although not absolutely) certain that the Family is Ichneumonidae<\/strong>.\u00a0 That cuts it down to about 1000 species in the Pacific Northwest.\u00a0\u00a0 I’d be approaching the area of speculation if I were to suggest Genus Therion<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ichneumonid wasp, possibly Therion <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Ichneumonidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>She also photographed a bee<\/strong>, and we’ll see if we can come up with an identification in the next few days.\u00a0 [Added later: Steven Roias identifies the bee as Bombus vancouverensis<\/strong><\/em>.]<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0\u00a0 After those tricky ones, you’d think the next one, a swallowtail butterfly, would be a bit easier.\u00a0 Well, the background colour is certainly pale.\u00a0 But are those black stripes quite thick enough for a Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>?\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t always find our two tiger swallowtails easy to tell apart, but I’ll go out on a limb and say Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> for this one.\u00a0 I’m sure if viewers disagree they’ll let me know in short order.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Also seen by Aziza at the Potholes:<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>10 Pale Tiger Swallowtails, 2 Western Tiger Swallowtails and 3 Western Spring Azures.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes on May 29:\u00a0 \u00a0Kirsten Mills and I saw seven species of butterflies on Mount Tolmie.\u00a0 We saw all three swallowtails<\/strong> including one Anise<\/strong> at the summit; a Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong> at the top of the stairs near the concrete reservoir, a few Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, a Propertius Duskywing<\/strong> and a few Cabbage Whites<\/strong>.\u00a0 Also, of note we saw two Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> near the Pike Lake substation on Munn Road. \u00a0Western Tiger Swallowtails are finally starting to become more noticeable around Victoria as I even saw one down the street on Wascana near my folks’ place.<\/p>\n

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2021 May 30 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The caterpillar of Malacosoma californicum is so abundant and ubiquitous that we sometimes forget that it is in fact a very handsome beast!\u00a0\u00a0 So here’s a close look at one by Jochen M\u00f6hr:   \u00a0 Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr \u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper […]<\/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-14092","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\/14092","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=14092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14119,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14092\/revisions\/14119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}