{"id":19667,"date":"2023-08-08T16:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T23:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19667"},"modified":"2023-08-10T07:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:24:36","slug":"2023-august-8-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19667","title":{"rendered":"2023 August 8 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Claudia Copley sends the following announcement of employment opportunity:<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca\/about\/our-work\/meet-staff\/employment\/august-30-2023\/collections-manager-ppm-entomology<\/a><\/p>\n

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Please respond if you are interested \u2013 or pass it on to anyone you know who might be interested.<\/p>\n

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Here are three bumble bees <\/strong>from Sunday\u2019s (August 6) VNHS Butterfly Walk, kindly identified for us by Steven Roias.\u00a0 Lorquin\u2019s Admirals <\/strong>being a little scarce recently, Steven reports having seen one at Royal Roads University on August 6, and one at Tod Inlet on August 7.<\/p>\n

\"\"Male Bombus vancouverensis\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae) Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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\"\"Male Bombus vancouverensis\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Male Bombus flavifrons\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Also from that Walk, two unidentified hymenopterans, believed to be Adrenidae.\u00a0 If anyone can help, please do so!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Probably Mining bee (Hym.: Adrenidae) Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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\"\"Probably Mining bee (Hym.: Adrenidae) Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed this Paddle-tailed Darner<\/strong> at Outerbridge Park.\u00a0 She is fascinated with the human faces that some dragonflies have.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

Marie photographed this Soldier beetle <\/strong>at McIntyre reservoir, August 6:<\/p>\n

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\"\"Soldier beetle Rhagonycha fulva\u00a0 <\/em>(Col.: Cantharidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

She also photographed these two stink bug nymphs<\/strong> \u2013 the first one at Cowichan River Park, August 2; the second one at Outerbridge Park, August 5.\u00a0 We thank Scott Gilmore for their identification.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Brochymena <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Hem.: Pentatomidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"Cosmopepla intergressa<\/em> (Hem.: Pentatomidae)
\nMarie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

Aziza Cooper photographed a Mourning Cloak <\/strong>along Lochside Trail north of Blenkinsop Lake on August 7.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)
\nAziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Cheryl Hoyle photographed the following along the Dallas Road waterfront on August 7.\u00a0\u00a0 We need someome who is good at Hymenoptera to help witi identifications in that Order (other than Bombus<\/em>).\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I\u2019m making a wild guess at Halictidae for the first one.<\/p>\n

\"\"Hymenoptera \u2013 possibly Halictidae.\u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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\"\"Bombus vosnesenskii <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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\"\"Bombus vosnesenskii <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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\"\"Male Cabbage White Pieris rapae<\/em> (Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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\"\"Female Cabbage White Pieris rapae<\/em> (Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

\"\"Woodland Skipper\u00a0 Ochlodes sylvanoides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

More tomorrow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 August 8 afternoon   \u00a0\u00a0 Claudia Copley sends the following announcement of employment opportunity:   https:\/\/www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca\/about\/our-work\/meet-staff\/employment\/august-30-2023\/collections-manager-ppm-entomology   Please respond if you are interested \u2013 or pass it on to anyone you know who might be interested.   Here are three bumble bees from Sunday\u2019s (August 6) VNHS Butterfly Walk, kindly identified for us by […]<\/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-19667","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\/19667","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=19667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19701,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19667\/revisions\/19701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}