{"id":22200,"date":"2024-06-28T20:51:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T03:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22200"},"modified":"2024-06-28T20:51:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T03:51:56","slug":"2024-june-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22200","title":{"rendered":"2024 June 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 June 28<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 A couple of days ago I posted the image below, taken by Ian Cooper, as an \u201cunknown beetle larva\u201d.\u00a0 I subsequently sent the image to beetle expert Charlene Woods wondering if perhaps she might be able to identify it.\u00a0\u00a0 Embarrassment \u2013 it wasn\u2019t a beetle at all, but something quite different! This, however, was no obstacle to Charlene, who identified it as the larva of a Brown Lacewing (Hemerobiidae), and probably genus Hemerobius<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 I hastily asked Ian if he would go out and photograph an adult brown lacewing for us, so we could see what the larva was a larva of.\u00a0\u00a0 Because brown lacewing larvae feed on aphids, you can apparently buy the larvae by the bucket-load if you know where, although Ian\u2019s were genuinely wild ones!\u00a0\u00a0 Here are Ian\u2019s two photographs:<\/p>\n

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\nLarva of a Brown Lacewing, probably Hemerobius <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Neu.: Hemerobiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Adult Brown Lacewing\u00a0 (Neu.: Hemerobiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a photograph of a running crab spider photographed by Ian Cooper along the Galloping Goose trail in View Royal on June 24.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Philodromus rufus\u00a0 <\/em>(Ara.: Philodromidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Anne Ashley sent this photograph of a Golden Jewel Beetle <\/strong>photographed by her neighbour Colleen Irwin in the Fairfield Gonzales area of Victoria.<\/p>\n

\"\"Golden Jewel Beetle\u00a0\u00a0 Buprestis aurulenta\u00a0 <\/em>(Col.: Buprestidae)\u00a0 Colleen Irwin<\/p>\n

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Here are the results of a predawn and early morning shoot by Ian Cooper this morning, June 28. \u00a0All were taken at either *Colquitz River Park in Saanich or the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.<\/p>\n

\"\"#Larva of Asian Ladybeetle\u00a0 Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"#Larva of Seven-spotted Ladybird\u00a0 Coccinella septempunctata \u00a0<\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)
\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"#Larva of Seven-spotted Ladybird\u00a0 Coccinella septempunctata \u00a0<\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)
\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Seven-spotted Ladybird\u00a0 Coccinella septempunctata \u00a0<\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)
\nIan Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"*Ambigolimax valentianus<\/em>\u00a0(Pul.: Limacidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"*Spittle Bug – Philaenus spumarius<\/em>\u00a0(Hem.: Cercopidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"#Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"# Callobius pictus<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Amaurobiidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I went to Mount Tolmie today at 5:30 pm, and the one and only butterfly I saw there was a single Red Admiral<\/strong> just outside the entrance to the reservoir.\u00a0 That reminds me that, earlier this week, while I was doing a cryptic crossword, I discovered that Red Admiral and the Spanish football team Real Madrid are anagrams of each other.<\/p>\n

Kirsten Mills writes:\u00a0 \u00a0Today, June 28, Jeff Gaskin and I travelled to Nanaimo.\u00a0 Along Nanaimo River Road, particularly at Elk Trails Way, \u00a0we saw two \u00a0Clodius Parnassians<\/strong>.\u00a0 A little further down the road or towards the highway was a Dun Skipper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Clodius Parnassian\u00a0 Parnassius clodius\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

\"\"Clodius Parnassian\u00a0 Parnassius clodius\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

\"\"Clodius Parnassian\u00a0 Parnassius clodius\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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Butterfliers who see any parnassian butterflies are reminded to examine them closely in case any of them might be P. smintheus.\u00a0 <\/em>These photographs above are clearly P. clodius<\/em>, but if you see any red spot on the forewing, or if the antennae are chequered, you may have smintheus.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 June 28 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 A couple of days ago I posted the image below, taken by Ian Cooper, as an \u201cunknown beetle larva\u201d.\u00a0 I subsequently sent the image to beetle expert Charlene Woods wondering if perhaps she might be able to identify it.\u00a0\u00a0 Embarrassment \u2013 it wasn\u2019t a beetle at all, but something […]<\/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-22200","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\/22200","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=22200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22203,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22200\/revisions\/22203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}