{"id":20220,"date":"2023-09-17T19:35:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T02:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20220"},"modified":"2023-09-17T19:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T02:35:47","slug":"2023-september-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20220","title":{"rendered":"2023 September 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2023 September 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was no Invertebrate Alert for September 16.<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Hoyle sends these photographs of an unfamiliar insect from View Royal, September 16.\u00a0 At first glance both Cheryl and Jeremy Tatum thought that it was a whitefly (Hem.: Aleyrodidae), but had doubts on a closer look.\u00a0 In particular, see how it holds its wings \u2013 rooflike like a lacewing rather than flat like a whitefly.\u00a0 There are other indications, but it is in fact related to the lacewings, and is in the Order Neuroptera, Family Coniopterygidae, dustywings.\u00a0 Is the similarity of two insect Families from different Orders an example of convergent evolution?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20216 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/DSC_0130-2-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/DSC_0130-2-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/DSC_0130-2.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/>Dustywing (Neu.: Coniopterygidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20215 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/DSC_0127-2-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/DSC_0127-2-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/DSC_0127-2-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/DSC_0127-2.jpg 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/>Dustywing (Neu.: Coniopterygidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Mills writes:<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gaskin and I spent a full day counting butterflies on the first day of the butterfly count, September 16. We had a grand total of 53 <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong>. At Goldstream Park there were 2 <strong>Mourning Cloaks<\/strong> and 1 <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>Admiral<\/strong>. Another <strong>Lorquin&#8217;s Admiral<\/strong> was seen along Finlayson Arm Road. At the end of Anchorage Avenue, a <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> was in some blackberry brambles, and a <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong> was by Royal Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Dragonflies seen at Goldstream Park included several <strong>Paddle-tailed Darners<\/strong> as well as 3<strong> Shadow<\/strong> <strong>Darners<\/strong> and what we think was a <strong>Pacific Spiketail<\/strong>. By the Metchosin Golf Course on Pears Road, we saw 3 <strong>Cardinal Meadowhawks<\/strong> and one each of <strong>Striped<\/strong> and <strong>Variegated Meadowhawk<\/strong> and <strong>Blue-eyed Darner<\/strong> and a <strong>Northern Spreadwing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20219 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lorquin-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lorquin-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lorquin.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/>Lorquin\u2019s Admiral\u00a0 <em>Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20214 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Variegated-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Variegated-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Variegated-1024x612.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Variegated-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Variegated.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/>Variegated Meadowhawk\u00a0 <em>Sympetrum corruptum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20217 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Kirsten-Cardinal-300x278.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Kirsten-Cardinal-300x278.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Kirsten-Cardinal-1024x951.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Kirsten-Cardinal-768x713.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Kirsten-Cardinal.png 1046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/>Cardinal Meadowhawk <em>Sympetrum illotum\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<br \/>\nKirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 September 17 There was no Invertebrate Alert for September 16. Cheryl Hoyle sends these photographs of an unfamiliar insect from View Royal, September 16.\u00a0 At first glance both Cheryl and Jeremy Tatum thought that it was a whitefly (Hem.: Aleyrodidae), but had doubts on a closer look.\u00a0 In particular, see how it holds its [&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-20220","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\/20220","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=20220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20221,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20220\/revisions\/20221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}