{"id":15691,"date":"2022-05-31T17:25:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T00:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15691"},"modified":"2022-05-31T17:28:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T00:28:33","slug":"2022-may-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15691","title":{"rendered":"2022 May 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 May 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna sends these photographs of a beetle and a mite from the Kemp Lake area, May 29.&nbsp; Scott Gilmore identifies the beetle as from the genus <strong><em>Amara<\/em><\/strong>, commonly called <strong>Sun Beetles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P5292828-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"866\" height=\"643\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Amara <\/em>sp. (Col.: Carabidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P5292836.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"818\" height=\"614\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Amara <\/em>sp. (Col.: Carabidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P5292846.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"526\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We&rsquo;re working on the mite ID!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Val George sends photographs of two moths from his Oak Bay house, May 31.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Spotted-Tussock-Moth-1-Lophocampa-maculata.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"863\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa maculata&nbsp; <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &ndash; Arctiinae) Val George<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Cyclophora-dataria-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"859\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cyclophora dataria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a caterpillar found on cottonwood at Rithet&rsquo;s Bog, May 30:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Enargia-infumata-la.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"277\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Enargia infumata <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 May 31 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna sends these photographs of a beetle and a mite from the Kemp Lake area, May 29.&nbsp; Scott Gilmore identifies the beetle as from the genus Amara, commonly called Sun Beetles. &nbsp; Amara sp. (Col.: Carabidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna &nbsp; Amara sp. (Col.: Carabidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna &nbsp; &nbsp; We&rsquo;re working on [&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-15691","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\/15691","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=15691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}