{"id":22528,"date":"2024-07-11T19:32:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T02:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22528"},"modified":"2024-07-12T14:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T21:09:55","slug":"2024-july-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22528","title":{"rendered":"2024 July 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 July 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ian Cooper sends a recent selection.\u00a0 All photographs were taken on July 8\u00a0and 9, 2024, along the E&amp;N Trail in Esquimalt and View Royal and the Galloping Goose Trail 9 km marker in View Royal.\u00a0 Ian elects \u201cto include some unknown mystery critters due to their novelty\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 A good idea, writes Jeremy Tatum, although it does have the problem that, almost by definition, I don\u2019t know what many of them are.\u00a0 If any viewers can help with these, please don\u2019t hesitate to do so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22523 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06491c-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06491c-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06491c-1024x905.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06491c-768x679.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06491c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/>Male Crane fly\u00a0 (Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22526 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06635cs-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06635cs-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06635cs-1024x888.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06635cs-768x666.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06635cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/>Unknown bee.\u00a0 Possibly <em>Colletes <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Colletidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22525 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06613cs-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06613cs-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06613cs-1024x786.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06613cs-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06613cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/>Plant bug\u00a0\u00a0 (Hem.: Miridae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22527 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06682cs-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06682cs-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06682cs-1024x887.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06682cs-768x666.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC06682cs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/>Plant bug\u00a0 <em>Heterotoma planicornis\u00a0 <\/em>(Hem.: Miridae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr photographed this <strong>Common Emerald <\/strong>moth inside his house in Metchosin today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22522 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/P1020556-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/P1020556-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/P1020556-1005x1024.jpg 1005w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/P1020556-768x783.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/P1020556.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/>Common Emerald\u00a0 <em>Hemithea aestivaria\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes;\u00a0 The only excitement I had today was to see a <strong>sesiid<\/strong> (clearwing) moth nectaring on Snowberry at Swan Lake this afternoon.\u00a0 These are always exciting to see.\u00a0 I gave a description of it to Libby Avis, and she tells us that it was <em><strong>Synanthedon albicornis<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 July 11 Ian Cooper sends a recent selection.\u00a0 All photographs were taken on July 8\u00a0and 9, 2024, along the E&amp;N Trail in Esquimalt and View Royal and the Galloping Goose Trail 9 km marker in View Royal.\u00a0 Ian elects \u201cto include some unknown mystery critters due to their novelty\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 A good idea, writes Jeremy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22528","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=22528"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22552,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22528\/revisions\/22552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}