{"id":19880,"date":"2023-08-22T19:43:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T02:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19880"},"modified":"2023-08-22T19:43:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T02:43:34","slug":"2023-august-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=19880","title":{"rendered":"2023 August 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 August 22<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/strong>Here are some photographs by Ian Cooper of bees from along the E&N Trail in Vic West and View Royal on July 22 and 28, 2023.\u00a0\u00a0 We thank Steven Roias for sorting out the three Bombus <\/em>bumble bees for us.<\/p>\n

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

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

Steven writes:\u00a0 Despite the bee being a male, the abdominal colour patterning is still very distinct between vancouverensis<\/em> and flavifrons<\/em>. In vancouverensis<\/em>, you will observe orange bands (called tergites) between yellow bands (as seen in the photo). In flavifrons<\/em> males, you will see either the first two bands are yellow followed by orange bands and a black last band; or five bands of yellow and two black bands at the end.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Bombus fervidus californicus <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Honey Bee Apis mellifera<\/em> (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Halictus rubicundus <\/em>(Hym.: Halictidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Megachile<\/em> (possibly perihirta<\/em>) \u00a0(Hym.: Megachilidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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From Salt Spring Island Ren Ferguson sends a photograph of an unusual colour variety of the caterpillar of the Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 It is probably third instar.\u00a0 The background colour of this instar is usally yellow rather than the snow white of this specimen.<\/p>\n

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Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata
\n<\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)
\nRen Ferguson<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin writes:
\nToday, August 22, I found a Shadow Darner<\/strong> that looked identical to the one Kirsten and I saw at Muir creek in Colquitz River Park.\u00a0 It was approximately 100 metres south of Marigold Road on the east side of Interurban road.<\/p>\n

Also, today August 22, I found a lot of Woodland Skippers<\/strong>.\u00a0 26 were in the Capital City Allotment gardens on Kent Road, and 75 were in Beacon Hill Park.\u00a0 The only other butterfly I saw today was the Cabbage White<\/strong> and they were in typical numbers.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum reports one Red Admiral<\/strong> from the Mount Tolmie reservoir, 5:15 pm, August 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 August 22 \u00a0 Here are some photographs by Ian Cooper of bees from along the E&N Trail in Vic West and View Royal on July 22 and 28, 2023.\u00a0\u00a0 We thank Steven Roias for sorting out the three Bombus bumble bees for us. Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper Bombus vancouverensis (Hym.: Apidae) Ian […]<\/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-19880","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\/19880","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=19880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19881,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19880\/revisions\/19881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}