{"id":14124,"date":"2021-06-02T16:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T23:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14124"},"modified":"2021-06-03T15:43:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T22:43:58","slug":"june-2-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14124","title":{"rendered":"June 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Here’s a miscellany from Mr E.\u00a0 The first is a green lacewing<\/strong>.\u00a0 There are several species, in two genera. We are not sure which genus this one is, so we’ll leave it for the moment at Family level.<\/p>\n

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Green Lacewing (Neu.: Chrysopidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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(As yet) unidentified weevil (Col.: Curculionidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Anthrenus verbasci <\/em>(Col.: Dermestidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Bug eggs (Hem.: – possibly Pentatomidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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If anyone can help with the fly below, please do let us know.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum thinks that it is probably a member of the Family Muscidae.<\/p>\n

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Fly \u2013 (Dip.: – perhaps Muscidae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Narcissus Bulb Fly Merodon equestris <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying the moth below.\u00a0 (There are two species locally, and Libby sorted them out for us!)<\/p>\n

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Adela septentrionella <\/em>(Lep.: Adelidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Adela septentrionella <\/em>(Lep.: Adelidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Adela septentrionella<\/em>\u00a0(Lep.: Adelidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Aziza Cooper sends photographs of two bumble bees and a moth.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Steven Roias for identifying the bees for us.\u00a0\u00a0 The first is Bombus californicus<\/em><\/strong>, which, writes Steven, was “formerly in the B. fervidus <\/em>complex”.<\/p>\n

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

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

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Spilosoma virginica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 On May 8 Elisabeth Ruiter showed a photograph of a caterpillar of Lorquin’s Admiral <\/strong>in Cowichan.<\/p>\n

She successfully reared it, and the adult butterfly emerged yesterday:<\/p>\n

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Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Elisabeth Ruiter<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart reports a Painted Lady<\/strong> at Panama Flats on June 1.<\/p>\n

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Jochen M\u00f6hr photographed a Nadata gibbosa<\/em><\/strong> and an Apamea sordens<\/em><\/strong> in Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n

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Nadata gibbosa <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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

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2021 June 2 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Here’s a miscellany from Mr E.\u00a0 The first is a green lacewing.\u00a0 There are several species, in two genera. We are not sure which genus this one is, so we’ll leave it for the moment at Family level.   Green Lacewing (Neu.: Chrysopidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E (As yet) unidentified weevil (Col.: […]<\/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-14124","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\/14124","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=14124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14141,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions\/14141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}