{"id":19086,"date":"2023-06-27T22:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T05:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19086"},"modified":"2023-06-27T22:04:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T05:04:33","slug":"19086","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19086","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 June 27 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ian Cooper photographed this <strong>clearwing moth<\/strong> along the E&amp;N trail in View Royal, June 26.\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for confirmation of Ian\u2019s identification as <strong><em>Synanthedon bibionipennis<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Libby writes that she saw a lot of them along the Somass Estuary on June 25.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19083 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sesiid-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sesiid-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sesiid-1024x832.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sesiid-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/sesiid.jpg 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><em>Synanthedon bibionipennis <\/em>(Lep.: Sesiidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kirsen Mills sends a photograph of a <strong>Pacific Forktail and a Cardinal Meadowhawk<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19082 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kirsten-Ischnura-cervula-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kirsten-Ischnura-cervula-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kirsten-Ischnura-cervula-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kirsten-Ischnura-cervula.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/>Pacific Forktail <em>Ischnura cervula <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)<br \/>\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19081 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kirsten-Cardinal-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kirsten-Cardinal-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kirsten-Cardinal-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kirsten-Cardinal-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kirsten-Cardinal.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/>Cardinal Meadowhawk\u00a0 <em>Sympetrum illotum\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper photographed a colourful spider.\u00a0 He writes: This extremely fast-moving spider spotted running frantically through the ground vegetation by the E&amp;N Trail was one of the more unusual species I saw on June 26.\u00a0 Dr Robb Bennett writes: Wow! \u2013 one of our most photogenic spiders. One of the species of<strong><em> Castianeira<\/em><\/strong> ant mimics. I have trouble telling them apart without a microscope but it\u2019s probably either <strong><em>C. longipalpa<\/em><\/strong> or <strong><em>C. walsinghami<\/em><\/strong>. They are actually fairly common but often mistaken for ants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19080 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ant-spider-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ant-spider-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ant-spider-1024x847.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ant-spider-768x635.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ant-spider.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><em>Castianeira longipalpa<\/em>\/<em>walsinghami\u00a0 <\/em>(Ara.: Corrinidae)<br \/>\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 June 27 morning \u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper photographed this clearwing moth along the E&amp;N trail in View Royal, June 26.\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for confirmation of Ian\u2019s identification as Synanthedon bibionipennis.\u00a0 Libby writes that she saw a lot of them along the Somass Estuary on June 25. Synanthedon bibionipennis (Lep.: Sesiidae) Ian Cooper &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19086","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\/19086","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19087,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19086\/revisions\/19087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}