{"id":22989,"date":"2024-08-02T20:42:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T03:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22989"},"modified":"2024-08-03T07:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T14:26:19","slug":"2024-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=22989","title":{"rendered":"2024 August 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 August 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are some photographs by Aziza Cooper from Goldstream, August 1.\u00a0 She noted a dozen Woodland Skippers <\/strong>there.<\/p>\n

\"\"Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper
\n<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\"\"<\/strong>Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 <\/strong>We don\u2019t yet know the exact identity of the fly below, but Drs Jeff Skevington and Rob Cannings identify the Family as Bombyliidae, known as bee flies.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Bee fly (Dip.: Bombyliidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Toxoleptura vexatrix<\/em>\u00a0 <\/strong>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper
\nWe thank Scott Gilmore for the identification of this beetle.<\/p>\n

\"\"Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/strong>Male Bombus flavifrons\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper
\nWe thank Steven Roias for the identification of this bee.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0 Here are six daytime pictures taken on July 31st<\/sup> along the E&N trail in View Royal and Vic West.\u00a0\u00a0 We thank Dr Jeff Skevington for the identification of the flies.<\/p>\n

\"\"Lapposyrphus lapponicus\u00a0 <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Melanostoma mellinum\u00a0 <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Spot the harvestman!\u00a0 Probably Phalangium opilio<\/em>\u00a0(Opiliones)\u00a0\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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If anyone can identify the bee below, please do let us know.\u00a0 We think probably a sweat bee (Halictidae).<\/p>\n

\"\"Probably a sweat bee (Hym.: Halictidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Likewise, if anyone can identify the wasp below, please help.\u00a0 Our best shot for the present is Dolichovespula arenaria<\/em>, but we\u2019d welcome confirmation (or otherwise!)<\/p>\n

\"\"Probably Dolichovespula arenaria\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

Lastly \u2013 an easy one!\u00a0 :-<\/p>\n

\"\"Seven-spotted Ladybird Beetle \u00a0Coccinella septempunctata<\/em>\u00a0 (Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Butterflies are so scarce just now that it is worth noting sightings of any individual butterflies.\u00a0 For example, Jeremy Tatum writes that he saw a Lorquin\u2019s Admiral <\/strong>and a Cabbage White<\/strong> at Swan Lake today, August 2.<\/p>\n

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Val George found this moth at his Oak Bay house this morning, August 2.\u00a0 \u00a0It is in the geometrid genus Drepanulatrix<\/em>, but is difficult to say whether it is D. monicaria<\/em> or D. secundaria<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Drepanulatrix monicaria<\/em>\/secundaria\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Val George<\/p>\n

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2024 August 2 Here are some photographs by Aziza Cooper from Goldstream, August 1.\u00a0 She noted a dozen Woodland Skippers there. Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides\u00a0 (Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper \u00a0\u00a0Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides\u00a0 (Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper \u00a0 \u00a0 We don\u2019t yet know the exact identity of the fly below, but Drs Jeff Skevington and […]<\/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-22989","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\/22989","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=22989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22993,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22989\/revisions\/22993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}