{"id":2666,"date":"2016-06-09T19:11:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T03:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2016-06-09T20:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T03:22:58","slug":"june-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2666","title":{"rendered":"June 9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 June 9<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes:  I am enclosing a picture of a Western Eyed Click Beetle (<\/strong>Alaus<\/em><\/strong> melanops<\/em><\/strong>).<\/strong>  I almost did not see it on the black asphalt of our Highlands driveway, but I saw the two false “eyes”. It is quite large, about 30 mm.<\/p>\n

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Western Eyed Click Beetle Alaus melanops <\/em> (Col.: Elateridae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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   Louise Rushton found a caterpillar which we couldn’t identify, but she kept an eye on it, and a yellow maggot of a parasitoidal tachinid fly emerged from the now-dead caterpillar.<\/p>\n

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Tachinid fly maggot (Dip.: Tachinidae)  Louise Rushton<\/p>\n

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   In the June 7 posting, we mentioned that Gordon Hart had photographed a beetle and some “tiny insects” on a daisy at Currie Creek Road.  Scott Gilmore has identified the beetle for us as Lepturobosca chrysocoma<\/em><\/strong> (thank you, Scott), so we now show Gordon’s photograph.  I challenged Scott to go further and to see if he could identify one of the “tiny” insects, which was also a beetle.  This probably needs close examination of the insect with a lens, but Scott rose to the challenge, and he believes that the little beetle is probably Bruchidius villosus<\/em><\/strong>.  Then there is a very tiny insect indeed on one of the petals on the right hand side. Jeremy Tatum is pretty sure that this is a parasitoidal wasp of the hymenopteran superfamily Chalcidoidea.  These insects insert several (sometimes many) eggs inside the egg of another insect (such as a moth egg), and these several eggs hatch into several grubs, which grow and spend their entire immature lives (larvae and pupae) inside the egg of the host insect.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Lepturobosca chrysocoma <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae) <\/div>\n

  and  Bruchidius villosus <\/em>(Col.: Chrysomelidae)<\/p>\n

Gordon Hart.<\/p>\n

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   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today, June 09, I went with Rick Schortinghuis to look for Field Crescents <\/strong>on Stelly’s Cross Road, and almost immediately we started seeing them.  We counted at least five and there probably were more. Also, there were a few European or Essex Skippers<\/strong> in the grass.<\/p>\n

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2016 June 9      Gordon Hart writes:  I am enclosing a picture of a Western Eyed Click Beetle (Alaus melanops).  I almost did not see it on the black asphalt of our Highlands driveway, but I saw the two false “eyes”. It is quite large, about 30 mm.   Western Eyed Click Beetle Alaus […]<\/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-2666","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\/2666","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=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}