{"id":21975,"date":"2024-06-19T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21975"},"modified":"2024-06-19T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:24:33","slug":"2024-june-19-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=21975","title":{"rendered":"2024 June 19 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 June 19 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 No Invertebrate Alerts for June 17 and 18!\u00a0 Sorry \u2018bout that!\u00a0 In case you are wondering, there were actually no submissions on June 17.\u00a0 On June 18, unfortunately, I had so many appointments of one sort or another that day that I just couldn\u2019t quite find the time or energy.\u00a0 Back to normal today, I think.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t see any butterflies yesterday (June 18), but I had ample compensation in seeing a sesiiid (clearwing) moth in Swan Creek Park \u2013 almost certainly Synanthedon bibionipennis<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Sesiids are always excitng to see.<\/p>\n

Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy photographed this beetle along Richmond Road on June 17.\u00a0 Although it doesn\u2019t seem to have particularly long \u201chorns\u201d, it is nevertheless in the Family of Long-horned Beetles, Cerambycidae.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know the exact species.<\/p>\n

\"\"Long-horned beetle (Col.:\u00a0 Cerambycidae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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Marie photographed this menacing-looking robber fly at Island View Beach on June 18.\u00a0 Don\u2019t sit too close to your computer screen in case it flies out and jumps on you.\u00a0 Dr Rob Cannings identifies it as Laphria <\/em>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Robber Fly Laphria <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Asilidae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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In answer to Marie\u2019s question:\u00a0 Is that fly rather nasty\/dangerous?,\u00a0 Dr Cannings writes:<\/p>\n

Robber flies are harmless to humans. They sometimes land on an arm or a leg or a back, but that’s only a perch for them. However, if you grab one in your hand, say, when removing one from a net, the larger ones can bite in self defence. I have had Efferia <\/em>individuals bite me \u2013 it hurts, like the bite of a notonectid backswimmer (if you’ve ever had that happen to you \u2013 again, a self-defence bite).<\/p>\n

As you know, the bite is actually an injection (through the proboscis) of proteolytic enzymes that kill insect prey. This saliva dissolves muscles and organs and the soup is sucked up through the proboscis. Thus, a small amount under your skin will sting a bit as the\u00a0nerves are affected.<\/p>\n

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Also at Island View Beach, Marie photographed this Lorquin\u2019s Admiral:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\"\"<\/strong>Lorquin\u2019s Admiral\u00a0 Limenitis lorquini\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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Val George writes:\u00a0\u00a0 This moth, Spargania magniolata<\/em><\/strong>, was on the wall of the Nature House at Goldstream Park today, June 18.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Spargania magniolata\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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And this moth, which ecloded (emerged) from its pupa yesterday, was reared from a caterpillar that fed on the leaves of the Armenian Blackberry.\u00a0 It was released near Blenkinsop Lake.<\/p>\n

\"\"Aseptis binotata <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2024 June 19 morning \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 No Invertebrate Alerts for June 17 and 18!\u00a0 Sorry \u2018bout that!\u00a0 In case you are wondering, there were actually no submissions on June 17.\u00a0 On June 18, unfortunately, I had so many appointments of one sort or another that day that I just couldn\u2019t quite find the […]<\/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-21975","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\/21975","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=21975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21976,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975\/revisions\/21976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}