{"id":22648,"date":"2024-07-15T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T03:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22648"},"modified":"2024-07-15T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T03:43:09","slug":"2024-july-15-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22648","title":{"rendered":"2024 July 15 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 July 15 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ian Cooper took multiple photographs of a hymenopterous insect spotted on fennel growing near the E&N trail in Esquimalt on July 14.\u00a0 From a successful search on the Web, Ian finds that it is a hymenopterous parasitoid in the Family Ichneumonidae, \u00a0Subfamily Triphoninae, Tribe Exenterini.<\/p>\n

\"\"Ichneumon wasp (Hym.: Ichneumonidae \u2013 Tryphoninae – Exenterini)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Ichneumon wasp (Hym.: Ichneumonidae \u2013 Tryphoninae – Exenterini)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Ichneumon wasp (Hym.: Ichneumonidae \u2013 Tryphoninae – Exenterini)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know how to predict what sort of a night is likely to be a good moth night.\u00a0\u00a0 Some people can predict when, but I don\u2019t know how often they are right.\u00a0 There have not been many moths at the Swan Lake Nature House this year \u2013 but this morning, July 16, there was a goodly number of moths there.\u00a0 Ten or so, all different.\u00a0\u00a0 Needless to say, I didn\u2019t have my camera with me. Later, I took my camera and tripod to the Goldstream Nature House \u2013 there was not a single moth there.\u00a0\u00a0 On the way back, I stopped at Swan Lake, but by that time only a single moth (shown below) was within tripod reach.\u00a0 I have never found the caterpillar \u2013 it is supposed to feed on lichens or algae (not sure which) on tree trunks.\u00a0 Anyway, it might be fruitful for moth photographers to pay a visit to Swan Lake in the mornings in the next few days.<\/p>\n

\"\"Clemensia umbrata\u00a0 <\/em>(Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae – Lithosiini) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Missing Butterflies: Still missing this year –\u00a0 Purplish Copper,\u00a0 Margined White, Pine White.\u00a0 Aziza Cooper saw a Woodland Skipper at Cowichan Station on July 14.\u00a0 That is within the area covered by the annual butterfly report that Jeremy Tatum compiles from Invert Alert, so it is not technically \u201cmissing\u201d.\u00a0 Yet that is still the only one reported from the area, and there have been none from immediately around Victoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 July 15 evening Ian Cooper took multiple photographs of a hymenopterous insect spotted on fennel growing near the E&N trail in Esquimalt on July 14.\u00a0 From a successful search on the Web, Ian finds that it is a hymenopterous parasitoid in the Family Ichneumonidae, \u00a0Subfamily Triphoninae, Tribe Exenterini. Ichneumon wasp (Hym.: Ichneumonidae \u2013 Tryphoninae […]<\/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-22648","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\/22648","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=22648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22650,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648\/revisions\/22650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}