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2024 August 12 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

We start this morning with two difficult kinds of Hymenoptera which we can\u2019t identify.\u00a0 If any viewer can help with these, please do get in touch.<\/p>\n

Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 Mary Morris sent me the enclosed picture of some of the thousands of dead insects scattered across the boats and the water in Brentwood Bay on August 9. Mary asked if they were tiny wasps, but I have always thought they were flying ants that hatch in August and September each year.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Since there were thousands of them, I suppose they must be ants, though I don\u2019t know which species.\u00a0 If I had seen just one of them, I might have thought that it was a tiny wasp of the Family Pteromalidae \u2013 but I don\u2019t think they swarm in thousands, so ants I think they must be.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Ants? (Hym.: Formicidae)\u00a0 Mary Morris<\/p>\n

\"\"Ants? (Hym.: Formicidae)\u00a0 Mary Morris<\/p>\n

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The other difficult hymenopteran received today is the following insect photographed by Aziza Cooper at her home on Salsbury Way on August 11.\u00a0 I am not sure, but it might be a horntail<\/strong> of the Family Siricidae.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Horntail?\u00a0 (Hym.: Siricidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

Aziza Cooper writes: Today, August 11, there was one Woodland Skipper<\/strong> and one Cabbage White<\/strong> at McIntyre Reservoir. At the fields north of Martindale Road on the east side of the valley, there were about 20 Cabbage Whites<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Loxostege cereralis\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Female Cabbage White Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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

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Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy sends the following from McIntyre Reservoir, August 10:<\/p>\n

Butterflies seen were\u2026<\/p>\n

5 Woodland Skippers
\n2 Cabbage Whites
\n1 Painted Lady<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dragonflies were\u2026<\/p>\n

5 Black\u00a0Saddlebags
\n4 Blue-eyed Darners
\n2 Paddle-tailed Darners
\n4 Western Pondhawks
\n2 Eight-spotted Skimmers
\n16 Blue Dashers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/strong>Black Saddlebags\u00a0 Tramea lacerata\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Black Saddlebags\u00a0 Tramea lacerata\u00a0 <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Blue-eyed Darner\u00a0 Rhionaeschna multicolor <\/em>(Lep.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Painted Lady\u00a0 Vanessa cardui\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Marie O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2024 August 12 morning We start this morning with two difficult kinds of Hymenoptera which we can\u2019t identify.\u00a0 If any viewer can help with these, please do get in touch. Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 Mary Morris sent me the enclosed picture of some of the thousands of dead insects scattered across the boats and the water […]<\/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-23178","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\/23178","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=23178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23246,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23178\/revisions\/23246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}