{"id":14608,"date":"2021-07-23T15:15:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T22:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14608"},"modified":"2021-07-23T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T22:39:51","slug":"2021-july-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14608","title":{"rendered":"2021 July 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 July 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Today \u2013 another fly and another bug.\u00a0\u00a0 Photographed in View Royal yesterday by Cheryl Hoyle. The fly is a <strong>greenbottle,\u00a0 <em>Lucilia <\/em>sp.\u00a0 <\/strong>I think the commonest here, writes Jeremy Tatum, is <strong><em>L. sericata<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_0371-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Greenbottle <em>Lucilia <\/em>(probably <em>sericata<\/em>) (Dip.: Calliphoridae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC_0372-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"484\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rhododendron Leafhopper <em>Graphocephala fennahi <\/em>(Hem.: Cicadellidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Here are two hawk moth pupae.\u00a0 The caterpillars were shown on July 12.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_4028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Top:\u00a0 Bedstraw Hawk Moth <em>Hyles galii <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bottom:\u00a0 White-lined Hawk Moth <em>Hyles lineata <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\">\u00a0 Butterflies featured in two of our local newspapers this week. Today&#8217;s <em>Times-Colonist<\/em> shows a butterfly that it calls a swallowtail &#8211; and it is indeed a Pale Tiger Swallowtail &#8211; so, well done, <em>T-C<\/em>!\u00a0\u00a0 The Oak Bay News was not quite so successful.\u00a0 Its photograph of a &#8220;giant tiger swallowtail&#8221; is actually a Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 July 23 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Today \u2013 another fly and another bug.\u00a0\u00a0 Photographed in View Royal yesterday by Cheryl Hoyle. The fly is a greenbottle,\u00a0 Lucilia sp.\u00a0 I think the commonest here, writes Jeremy Tatum, is L. sericata. \u00a0 Greenbottle Lucilia (probably sericata) (Dip.: Calliphoridae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle &nbsp; Rhododendron Leafhopper Graphocephala fennahi (Hem.: Cicadellidae)\u00a0 Cheryl [&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-14608","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\/14608","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=14608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14615,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608\/revisions\/14615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}