{"id":15014,"date":"2021-09-27T17:34:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T00:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15014"},"modified":"2021-09-27T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T00:37:00","slug":"2021-september-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15014","title":{"rendered":"2021 September 27"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2021 September 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/strong>   Jeff Gaskin writes: Today, September 27, before the rains came, Kirsten Mills found a Mylitta Crescent<\/strong> while she was in Jordan River.<\/p>\n

 
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   <\/strong>Mike Yip sends photographs of dragonflies from Nanoose, Sepember 25.  Dr Rob Cannings writes: <\/p>\n

    The meadowhawks are Striped Meadowhawks<\/strong> Sympetrum pallipes<\/em><\/strong>, both the pair in copula<\/em> and the single female. This is perhaps the most common species of the genus on southern Vancouver Island at this time of year. The darner is a male Paddle-tailed Darner<\/strong> Aeshna palmata<\/em><\/strong>. These can be hard to tell apart from A. umbrosa<\/em> in a dorsal shot like this, but palmata<\/em> has blue spots on the ninth abdominal segment whereas umbrosa<\/em> is all dark there.<\/p>\n

   Jeremy Tatum adds:  If you are lucky enough to have a copy of Rob’s excellent book Introduction to the Dragonflies of British Columbia and the Yukon<\/em>, compare the photograph of S. pallipes <\/em>on page 89 with Mike’s photograph.  It is remarkable how very similar are the stances of the pair in the two photographs – even down to the exact positions of the legs of the two.  The males are holding their wings differently in the two photographs; otherwise, they could be just the one photograph.<\/p>\n

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Striped Meadowhawks Sympetrum pallipes <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Female Striped Meadowhawk Sympetrum pallipes <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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   Aziza Cooper and Jeremy Tatum visited Aylard Farm on September 24, when Aziza photographed the carcase of a Townsend’s Vole with a Greenbottle Fly on it.  (See September 24 entry.)  Coincidentally, Gordon Hart found the same Townsend’s Vole only an hour or so later.  By this time the carcase had attracted a bunch of other invertebrates – flies, beetle, mites, which Gordon photographed.  We thank Dr Scott Gilmore for the beetle identifications, and Dr Heather Proctor for the mite identification.<\/p>\n

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Flesh Fly Sarcophaga <\/em>sp.:  (Dip.: Sarcophagidae)<\/p>\n

Creophilus maxillosus <\/em>(Col.: Staphylinidae)<\/p>\n

Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Flesh Fly Sarcophaga <\/em>sp.:  (Dip.: Sarcophagidae) Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

    There is a dipterous maggot near the bottom of the above photograph.  Gordon speculates as to whether the fly above might be a fond parent.<\/p>\n

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Nicrophorus investigator <\/em>(Col.: Silphidae)  <\/p>\n

Poecilochirus <\/em>sp. (Mesostigmata: Parasitidae)<\/p>\n

Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Nicrophorus defodiens <\/em>(Col.: Silphidae)  <\/p>\n

Nicrophorus investigator <\/em>(Col.: Silphidae)<\/p>\n

Sarcophaga <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Sarcophagidae)<\/p>\n

Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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2021 September 27     Jeff Gaskin writes: Today, September 27, before the rains came, Kirsten Mills found a Mylitta Crescent while she was in Jordan River.      Mike Yip sends photographs of dragonflies from Nanoose, Sepember 25.  Dr Rob Cannings writes:      The meadowhawks are Striped Meadowhawks Sympetrum pallipes, both the pair in copula […]<\/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-15014","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\/15014","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=15014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}