{"id":2292,"date":"2016-04-29T18:54:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T02:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2016-05-22T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T17:06:59","slug":"april-29-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2292","title":{"rendered":"April 29"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 April 29<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ken Vaughan sends a stunning picture of a snakefly from his patio table.\u00a0 He told me that in North America, apart from Texas, they don\u2019t occur east of the Rockies.\u00a0 I had not realized that.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Female Stigmatic Snakefly Negha inflata <\/em>(Rap.: Inocellidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n

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Jeremy Tatum sends a picture of a caterpillar of a snout moth<\/strong> from a nettle at Swan Lake yesterday.\u00a0 We can tell that it is a snout moth (genus Hypena<\/em><\/strong>) because it has only three pairs of mid-abdominal prolegs.\u00a0 This caterpillar is in its penultimate instar, and we can tell from the structure of its head capsule that it is very shortly going to undergo its final ecdysis (skin change).\u00a0 The adult emerged on May 15 (see posting on that date) and enabled us to identify the moth as Hypena californica<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>Snout moth Hypena\u00a0<\/em>californica<\/em> (Lep.: Erebidae – Hypeninae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Rosemary Jorna sends a picture of a Satyr Comma<\/strong> from Witty\u2019s Lagoon, April 28.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum remarks:\u00a0 I still haven\u2019t seen one of these yet this year!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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Annie Pang sends pictures of a crane fly<\/strong>, and also the tent made by young caterpillars of Malacosoma californicum<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Female crane fly. Probably Tipula paludosa <\/em>(Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Malacosoma californicum <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampiae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart photographed the tiny reddish-brown geometrid moth at Munn Road on April 27.\u00a0 Viewers are asked to keep a look out for his little moth and watch to see if you can catch it ovipositing.\u00a0 It is Leptostales rubromarginaria<\/em><\/strong>;<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong> its caterpillar and larval foodplant are apparently unknown, so here\u2019s your chance to make your mark on science!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Leptostales rubromarginaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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Mike Yip writes from Nanoose Bay:\u00a0 My routine Cross Road trail walk today\u00a0(April 29) yielded 15 Western Brown Elfins, 2 Western Pine Elfins, 3 Grey Hairstreaks, 1 Mourning Cloak<\/strong>,\u00a0several Western Tailed Blues<\/strong>,\u00a0several Western Spring Azures<\/strong> including one engaged couple, 1 first-of-year Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>, \u00a02 first-of-year Two-banded<\/strong> Grizzled Skippers<\/strong>, a moth and a bee fly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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[Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here are two of Mike\u2019s butterfly photographs, and the bee fly.\u00a0 The moth, a geometrid, will have to wait until tomorrow while we try to identify it!]<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Spring Azures Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Two-banded Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus ruralis <\/em> (Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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\"\"Bee fly Bombylius<\/em> major<\/em> (Dip.: Bombyliidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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2016 April 29 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Ken Vaughan sends a stunning picture of a snakefly from his patio table.\u00a0 He told me that in North America, apart from Texas, they don\u2019t occur east of the Rockies.\u00a0 I had not realized that.   Female Stigmatic Snakefly Negha inflata (Rap.: Inocellidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan   Jeremy Tatum sends a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2292","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\/2292","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}