{"id":14528,"date":"2021-07-11T17:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T00:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14528"},"modified":"2021-07-12T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:47:09","slug":"2021-july-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14528","title":{"rendered":"2021 July 11"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2021 July 11<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Corrigendum:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 On June 16 afternoon we posted a remarkable picture by Gordon Hart of a fly in flight, which I had misidentified as a probable Eristalis <\/em>(Syrphidae).\u00a0 \u00a0We are grateful \u00a0to Claudia Copley for pointing out that it is actually Hybomitra <\/em>(Tabanidae).\u00a0 See the entry for June 16 afternoon for further details.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy continues:\u00a0 For some time I have been trying to photograph both sexes of our two Malacosoma <\/em>species, but a male M. disstria <\/em>has so far eluded me.\u00a0 \u00a0I thought I had maybe photographed one this morning, but on second look, while I think it is disstria<\/em>, I am not sure of its sex.\u00a0 In any case it is one of the most undistinguished moths I have come across.<\/p>\n

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Malacosoma disstria <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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This tiny caterpillar, from a willow near Blenkinsop Lake and photographed against a miilimetre scale, also cannot at present claim any particularly distinguished appearance.\u00a0 But next Spring it will be very distinguished indeed \u2013 it will be a Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>butterfly.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus<\/em>\/eurymedon <\/em>(Lep.; Papilionidae)<\/p>\n

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Val \u00a0George sends a photograph of a June Beetle<\/strong> from Langford on July 9.\u00a0 This beetle has recently been split into two species \u2013 Polyphylla decemlineata<\/em>\u00a0 and P. crinita<\/em> \u2013 and we are still struggling on this site to distinguish between the two, so we\u2019ll leave it for the time being as an either\/or.\u00a0\u00a0 Whichever one it is, it inspired Val\u2019s five-year-old grandson to aver that he is going to be an entomologist when he grows up.<\/p>\n

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Polyphylla decemlineata<\/em>\/crinita <\/em>(Col.: Scarabaeidae)<\/p>\n

Val George<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes that there was a Painted Lady <\/strong>on the Mount Tolmie reservoir yesterday evening, July 10.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 On Sunday the 11th of July, we went to McIntyre Reservoir where the Teasel is in flower.\u00a0 We saw four Western Tiger Swallowtails,<\/strong> one Red Admiral<\/strong> and lots of Cabbage Whites<\/strong>. \u00a0So things are starting to look good there.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Yes, but are they going to cut the Teasels down, as they have done in the last two years?\u00a0 \u00a0Maybe someone might ask the Michells about this.<\/p>\n

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Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus <\/em>(Lep.: Papillionidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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J\u00f6chen M\u00f6hr sends a photograph of one of at least a dozen Essex Skippers <\/strong>from Metchosin, July 11.<\/p>\n

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Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2021 July 11 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Corrigendum:\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 On June 16 afternoon we posted a remarkable picture by Gordon Hart of a fly in flight, which I had misidentified as a probable Eristalis (Syrphidae).\u00a0 \u00a0We are grateful \u00a0to Claudia Copley for pointing out that it is actually Hybomitra (Tabanidae).\u00a0 See the entry for June […]<\/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-14528","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\/14528","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=14528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14537,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14528\/revisions\/14537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}