{"id":22711,"date":"2024-07-18T18:50:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T01:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22711"},"modified":"2024-07-18T19:12:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T02:12:54","slug":"2024-july-18-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22711","title":{"rendered":"2024 July 18 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 July 18 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another selection of recent photographs from Ian Cooper.\u00a0 All photos were taken on July 17 by the #Galloping Goose Trail & *Colquitz River Park.<\/p>\n

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

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The next moth was a bit of a puzzler.\u00a0 Although it appears to be in good condition, it has almost no obvious distinctive markings or pattern.\u00a0 In spite of that, Libby Avis, Jeremy Tatum and Ian Cooper all came up with \u201cPossibly or probably Noctua comes<\/em>, but not certain.\u201d\u00a0 But, although individually uncertain, we all converged on to the same species, so I\u2018m happy to label it, writes Jeremy, as Noctua comes, <\/em>without any qualifying uncertainty.<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"* Red ‘candy striped’ variant of Enoplognatha ovata<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Theridiidae) \u00a0 Ian Cooper
\nI don’t see the red candy striped variant often, so I was glad to spot this one in Colquitz River Park.<\/p>\n

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\"\"* Enoplognatha ovata<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Theridiidae) with a male crane fly prey.
\nA somewhat difficult photo to capture because of the ‘busy’ background, but the sight of this small spider with a much larger prey was intriguing.<\/p>\n

\"\"# Callobius<\/em> sp.<\/em>\u00a0(probably pictus<\/em>) \u00a0(Ara.: Amaurobiidae) \u00a0Ian Cooper
\nI’ve seen this spider hiding in its crevice residence on a conifer tree by the GG Trail previously. This time it was out in the open.<\/p>\n

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\"\"#Mayfly\u00a0 (Ephemeroptera)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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A lady beetle puzzle:\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper photographed the first of these below in Vic West, and Sher Falls photographed the second (two photographs of the same individual) in Nanaimo.\u00a0 These are Asian Lady<\/strong> Beetles Harmonia axyridis<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0 This lady beetle has many different forms, many of which don\u2019t look at all like these ones.\u00a0 Libby Avis tells us that the form conspicua <\/em>is black with one red blotch on each elytron, so this may be Ian\u2019s beetle.\u00a0 The form spectabilis <\/em>is black with two red blotches on each elytron, so this may be Sher\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\"\"Harmonia axyridis\u00a0 <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Harmonia axyridis\u00a0 <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Sher Falls<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 At 5:30 pm today there was a pristine fresh Anise Swallowtail <\/strong>resting with its wings fully open on the Oregon Grape (now Berberis<\/em>, formerly Mahonia<\/em>) just outside the entrance to the Mount Tolmie reservoir.\u00a0 A brief overhead fly-by of a Lorquin\u2019s Admiral <\/strong>was the only other butterfly I saw.<\/p>\n

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Val George writes:\u00a0 This Eulithis xylina<\/em><\/strong> was on the wall of my Oak Bay house this morning, July 18<\/p>\n

\"\"Northwestern Phoenix\u00a0 Eulithis xylina\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 July 18 evening Here\u2019s another selection of recent photographs from Ian Cooper.\u00a0 All photos were taken on July 17 by the #Galloping Goose Trail & *Colquitz River Park. #Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba\u00a0 (Lep.:\u00a0 Noctuidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper   The next moth was a bit of a puzzler.\u00a0 Although it appears to be in good […]<\/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-22711","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\/22711","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=22711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22715,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22711\/revisions\/22715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}