{"id":22862,"date":"2024-07-26T19:09:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T02:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22862"},"modified":"2024-07-26T19:09:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T02:09:56","slug":"2024-july-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22862","title":{"rendered":"2024 July 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 July 26<\/strong><\/p>\n

[There was no Invert posting for July 25.]<\/p>\n

Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0 Here are some of the photos taken last night (July 25) on the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal near the 9 km marker.<\/p>\n

\"\"Arion rufus <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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

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

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Dr Heather Proctor identifies the mites on the harvestman below as larval Erythraeidae, probably Leptus<\/em> sp.<\/p>\n

\"\"Harvestman (Opiliones) with mites (Erythraeidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Raspberry Weevil – Otiorhynchus singularis<\/em>\u00a0(Col.: Curculionidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Female Eratigena duellica<\/em>\u00a0(Ara: Agelenidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ian found the two spiders below at home, and gallantly took them outside to the country.\u00a0 It is not recorded whether the spiders thanked Ian for his thoughtful action.\u00a0 Identified for us by Dr Robb Bennett.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/strong>Steatoda<\/em> sp.\u00a0 (Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Steatoda<\/em> sp.\u00a0 (Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Probably Scotophaeus blackwalli\u00a0 <\/em>(Ara.: Gnaphosidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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In an hour\u2019s visit to Government house on July 25, Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy saw 4 Western Tiger Swallowtails, 1 Lorquin\u2019s Admiral, 1 Cabbage White , 1 Western Spring Azure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum writes.\u00a0 It is good to know that here are still a few butterflies around.\u00a0 At Swan Lake on July 25, I saw three Lorquin\u2019s Admirals\u00b8 <\/strong>and found two caterpillars of Red Admiral <\/strong>on the nettles.\u00a0 And this evening (July 26) I saw a Painted Lady<\/strong> and a Western Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>at the top of Mount Douglas.<\/p>\n

I have very occasionally seen Western Spring Azures in late July.\u00a0 Perhaps the species is partially bivoltine (double-brooded), although Marie\u2019s butterfly looks slightly worn and may be a surviving spring butterfly.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/strong>Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail\u00a0 <\/strong>Pterourus rutulus\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Today, July 26, Kirsten Mills and I\u00a0saw one Woodland Skipper<\/strong> and one Pine White<\/strong> at the top of Observatory Hill.\u00a0 Later, we checked out McIntyre Road reservoir and found the usual number of species of dragonflies although numbers of individual dragonflies were down.\u00a0 We did see one Black<\/strong> Saddlebags, 3 Common Green Darners,<\/strong> and one Cardinal Meadowhawk<\/strong>.\u00a0 Other dragonflies included Blue-eyed Darner, Blue Dasher, Western Pondhawk, <\/strong>and Eight-spotted Skimmer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2024 July 26 [There was no Invert posting for July 25.] Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0 Here are some of the photos taken last night (July 25) on the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal near the 9 km marker. Arion rufus (Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper Large Yellow Underwing\u00a0 Noctua pronuba\u00a0 (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper Lesser Yellow […]<\/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-22862","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\/22862","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=22862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22865,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862\/revisions\/22865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}