{"id":14603,"date":"2021-07-22T17:33:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T00:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14603"},"modified":"2021-07-22T17:38:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T00:38:59","slug":"2021-july-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14603","title":{"rendered":"2021 July 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 July 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kalene Lillico sends photographs of a fly and a bug nymph from Swan Lake.&nbsp; The fly was identified as <strong><em>Rhagoletis <\/em><\/strong>by Cara Gibson.&nbsp; It is on the fruit of Oregon Grape, and this (together with other details) makes it almost certainly <strong><em>Rhagoletis berberis<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rhagoletis220210722_KaleneLillico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Rhagoletis berberis <\/em>(Dip.: Tephritidae)&nbsp; Kalene Lillico<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; The bug is a nymph.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; My best effort is<\/p>\n<p>Certainly Pentatomidae<\/p>\n<p>Probably&nbsp; <em>Chlorochroa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Possibly&nbsp; <em>C. ligata<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/HemipteraClose20210722_KaleneLillico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"432\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Chlorochroa <\/em>(possibly<em> ligata<\/em>) (Hem.: Pentatomidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Kalene Lillico<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Today, July 22, I saw two pristine-fresh <strong>Mourning Cloaks <\/strong>near the bubble aerator at the NE end of the boardwalk at Swan Lake.&nbsp; Mourning Cloaks lay their eggs in a large batch and the young caterpillars stay close together, dispersing a bit when they are full-grown.&nbsp; It is therefore likely that there are other freshly-emerged adults in that area.&nbsp; Butterfliers should be aware that at present, owning to construction, it is very difficult to drive down Rainbow Street to Swan Lake.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Jeremy writes that today he also saw two pristine-fresh <strong>Pine Whites<\/strong> at Sitting Lady Falls, Witty&rsquo;s (Metchosin) Lagoon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 July 22 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kalene Lillico sends photographs of a fly and a bug nymph from Swan Lake.&nbsp; The fly was identified as Rhagoletis by Cara Gibson.&nbsp; It is on the fruit of Oregon Grape, and this (together with other details) makes it almost certainly Rhagoletis berberis. &nbsp; Rhagoletis berberis (Dip.: Tephritidae)&nbsp; Kalene Lillico &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-14603","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\/14603","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=14603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}