{"id":22238,"date":"2024-06-30T08:53:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22238"},"modified":"2024-06-30T08:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T15:53:15","slug":"2024-june-30-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22238","title":{"rendered":"2024 June 30 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 June 30 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ian Cooper photographed these two ants along the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal on June 28:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22236 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC05695cs-1-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC05695cs-1-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC05695cs-1-1024x841.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC05695cs-1-768x631.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC05695cs-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/>Western Black Carpenter Ant \u00a0<em>Camponotus modoc<\/em>\u00a0(Hym.: Formicidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22237 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC05679cs-1-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC05679cs-1-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC05679cs-1-1024x834.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC05679cs-1-768x625.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSC05679cs-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/>Red Carpenter Ant &#8211; <em>Camponotus vicinus<\/em>\u00a0(Hym.: Formicidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hart photographed this fly in the Highlands on June 27 at 1\/3200 of a second. \u00a0\u00a0Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I suppose I might have been able to identify this fly by a careful and minute examination of its iridescent green eyes and the details of its wing venation \u2013 but none of that was necessary.\u00a0 At the moment that I set eyes on the creature I felt the immediate and intense emotion of FEAR, and I knew immediately that this was a fly in the Family Tabanidae.\u00a0 I have had this reaction of fear of tabanids all my life; it is unmistakable.\u00a0 Tabanids include such flies as horse flies, deer flies, stouts, clegs.\u00a0 They eat humans &#8211; alive.\u00a0 \u00a0Dr Rob Cannings identifies this one as <strong><em>Hybomitra <\/em>sp.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <em>H. distinguenda <\/em>looks rather similar to this one, but <em>Hybomitra <\/em>is a large genus including several rather similar-looking flies, so we\u2019ll leave it as <em>Hybomitra <\/em>sp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22235 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Fly-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Fly-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Fly-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Fly-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Fly.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><em>Hybomitra\u00a0 <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Tabanidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 June 30 morning \u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper photographed these two ants along the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal on June 28: Western Black Carpenter Ant \u00a0Camponotus modoc\u00a0(Hym.: Formicidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper Red Carpenter Ant &#8211; Camponotus vicinus\u00a0(Hym.: Formicidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper &nbsp; Gordon Hart photographed this fly in the Highlands on June 27 at 1\/3200 of [&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-22238","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\/22238","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=22238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22240,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238\/revisions\/22240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}