{"id":16124,"date":"2022-08-01T15:40:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T22:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16124"},"modified":"2022-08-08T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T23:45:10","slug":"2022-august-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16124","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

2022 August 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gordon Hart sends photographs of a bug that he found on a potted geranium at his Highlands home.\u00a0\u00a0 We cannot be certain, but we think this may be a nymph of a Stilt Bug (Berytidae).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Maybe a nymph of a Stilt Bug (Hem.: Berytidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Maybe a nymph of a Stilt Bug (Hem.: Berytidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ren Ferguson sends a photograph of a moth photographed today on Salt Spring Island:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/em>Hesperumia sulphuraria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Ren Ferguson<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jody Wells sends photographs of a<\/p>\n

Caterpillar\u00a0 on a\u00a0\u00a0path near Glencoe Cove park July 29th<\/sup><\/p>\n

Common Whitetail ..Low Tide.. area accessed from \u00a0Helmcken Park July \u00a020th<\/sup><\/p>\n

Eight-spotted Skimmer July 27th<\/sup>\u00a0 Pendray\u2019s out near Victoria Airport<\/p>\n

\"\"
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Smerinthus ophthalmica <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Eight-spotted Skimmer Libellula forensis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs from Metchosin today.\u00a0 If any viewer can identify the crane fly, please do let us know.\u00a0 [Later:\u00a0 This appeal worked!\u00a0 Libby Avis has identified it as Tipula vittatipennis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/em><\/p>\n

Macaria lorquinaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/em><\/p>\n

Macaria lorquinaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/em><\/p>\n

Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Crane fly\u00a0Tipula vittatipennis<\/em> (Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a noctuid moth from Swan Lake.\u00a0 Libby Avis suggests that it may be a species from the large and difficult genus Lacinipolia<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Probably Lacinipolia <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2022 August 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart sends photographs of a bug that he found on a potted geranium at his Highlands home.\u00a0\u00a0 We cannot be certain, but we think this may be a nymph of a Stilt Bug (Berytidae). Maybe a nymph of a Stilt Bug (Hem.: Berytidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart Maybe a nymph of a […]<\/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-16124","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\/16124","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=16124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16200,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124\/revisions\/16200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}