{"id":20146,"date":"2023-09-07T19:19:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T02:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20146"},"modified":"2023-09-07T19:19:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T02:19:51","slug":"2023-september-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20146","title":{"rendered":"2023 September 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 September 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0\u00a0 I attach a photo of a <strong>Leaf-cutter Bee<\/strong>, <strong><em>Megachile<\/em><\/strong> genus, lifting off from a daisy, at Panama Flats. You can see the large mandibles used to cut circular segments of leaves for its nest. The shutter speed was 1\/2500 sec. and still did not stop the wings!<\/p>\n<p>Gordon also shows a photograph of a <strong>Bee Fly <\/strong>(Bombyliidae), also from Panama Flats<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20143 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Leaf-cutter-Bee-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Leaf-cutter-Bee-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Leaf-cutter-Bee.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/>Leaf-cutter Bee <em>Megachile <\/em>(Hym.: Megachilidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20142 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bee-Fly-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bee-Fly-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bee-Fly.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>Bee Fly, possibly <em>Hemipenthes<\/em> (Dip.: Bombyliidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a photograph of a moth <strong><em>Xestia xanthographa<\/em><\/strong>, which flew into my Saanich apartment today.\u00a0 This is a European moth, which is fairly common and well-established on Vancouver Island.\u00a0 Its English name is <strong>Square-spot Rustic, <\/strong>although, when talking to myself, I have taken to calling it \u201cX x\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>caterpillar, shown on September 4, has produced the chrysalis shown below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20145 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/X-x-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/X-x-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/X-x-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/X-x-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/X-x.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/>Square-spot Rustic <em>Xestia xanthographa <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)<br \/>\nJeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20144 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/rutulus-pu-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/rutulus-pu-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/rutulus-pu-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/rutulus-pu-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/rutulus-pu.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/>Western Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio rutulus <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)<br \/>\nJeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 September 7 Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0\u00a0 I attach a photo of a Leaf-cutter Bee, Megachile genus, lifting off from a daisy, at Panama Flats. You can see the large mandibles used to cut circular segments of leaves for its nest. The shutter speed was 1\/2500 sec. and still did not stop the wings! Gordon also [&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-20146","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\/20146","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=20146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20147,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions\/20147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}