{"id":16448,"date":"2022-08-29T21:09:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T04:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16448"},"modified":"2022-08-29T21:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T04:19:06","slug":"2022-august-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16448","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 29"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 <\/strong>   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  Shortly before ecdysis (skin-change from one instar to the next) the caterpillar of a butterfly or moth typically appears “two-headed”.  The head of the “new” caterpillar is withdrawn into the thoracic area of the “old” skin.  The first (foremost) head that you can see is the now-empty head capsule of the “old” caterpillar.  Behind this you can see the head of the “new” caterpillar inside the ”old” skin.  We see in the photograph the “double-head” of an eyed hawk moth caterpillar shortly going to change from fourth instar to fifth.<\/p>\n

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Smerinthus ophthalmica <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of two leafhoppers and a presumed leafhopper nymph from View Royal, August 28.<\/p>\n

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Blue-green Sharpshooter Hordnia atropunctata <\/em>(Hem.:  Cicadellidae)  Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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Rhododendron Leafhopper Graphocephala fennahi <\/em>(Hem.: Cicadellidae)  Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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Presumed leafhopper nymph (Hem.: Cicadellidae)  Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

   Aziza Cooper sends photographs of a butterfly and a dragonfly from Swan Lake, August 28:<\/p>\n

\"\"   Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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   Ian Cooper photographed these two spiders in the middle of the night (August 27\/28) at Colquitz Creek Park.  We thank Dr Robb Bennett for confirming Ian’s accurate identifications.  Of the first, Dr Bennett writes:  This is a clubionid, a species of Clubiona<\/em>. There are quite a few species in BC but I suspect this one is the introduced species Clubiona lutescens<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Clubiona <\/em>(probably lutescens<\/em>) (Ara.: Clubionidae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Immature Callobius pictus <\/em>(Ara.: Amaurobiidae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Harvestman (identification uncertain) (Opiliones)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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   We thank Claudia Copley for confirming Ian’s identification of the camel cricket<\/strong> below.<\/p>\n

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Camel cricket Pristoceuthophilus <\/em>sp. (Orth.: Rhaphidophoridae)  Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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   Just before presstime, we heard from Jeremy Gatten that he had seen a Swift Forktail <\/strong>yesterday by the Vancouver Island Trout Hatchery close to the Cowichan River in Duncan.  In case anyone is wondering, that’s a damselfly, Ischnura erratica<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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