{"id":16777,"date":"2022-09-23T12:57:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T19:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16777"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T18:23:54","slug":"2022-september-23-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16777","title":{"rendered":"2022 September 23 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 September 23 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are several\u00a0 recent insect photographs from Ian Cooper, together with a repeat of a photograph from August 25 for comparison.\u00a0\u00a0 First, the <strong>Drone Fly <em>Eristalis tenax<\/em><\/strong><em>.\u00a0 <\/em>Note the black hourglass shape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC04755c-tenax-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"407\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eristalis tenax <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next, for comparison, a repeat of Ian\u2019s August 25 photograph of a male <strong><em>Eristalis arbustorum<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/strong>The two eyes of the male touch each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/308eea85-1.png\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male <em>Eristalis arbustorum <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now a photograph taken yesterday of a female of the same species.\u00a0 The female\u2019s eyes do not quite touch, and the pattern is different.<\/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\/2022\/09\/DSC04667c-arbustorum-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"458\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female <em>Eristalis arbustorum <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now three photographs, from different angles, of a very different-appearing <em>Eristalis \u2013 <strong>Eristalis flavipes<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 \u201cFlavipes\u201d means yellow feet\u201d, as you will see in the second and third photographs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC04786cc-bee3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"417\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eristalis flavipes <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC04772c-bee2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"441\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eristalis flavipes <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC04770c-bee1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"373\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eristalis flavipes <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lastly from Ian, two more syrphids, a grasshopper and a moth:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC04725c-helophil-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"492\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Helophilus <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC04704c-pipiens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"395\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Syritta pipiens \u00a0<\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Melanoplus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"583\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Melanoplus <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC04695c-2-Udea-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"409\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Udea profondalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lynda Dowling sent the caterpillar photograph below to Gordon Hart, who forwarded it to Invert Alert:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Eyed Hawk Moth <em>Smerinthus ophthalmica <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lynda Dowling<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a photograph of a moth from Metchosin last night:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/P1690632-crop-rot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"412\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 September 23 morning Here are several\u00a0 recent insect photographs from Ian Cooper, together with a repeat of a photograph from August 25 for comparison.\u00a0\u00a0 First, the Drone Fly Eristalis tenax.\u00a0 Note the black hourglass shape. &nbsp; Eristalis tenax (Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper &nbsp; Next, for comparison, a repeat of Ian\u2019s August 25 photograph of 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