{"id":2802,"date":"2016-06-30T20:06:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T04:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2016-07-08T09:01:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T16:01:43","slug":"june-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<p><strong>2016 June 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Annie Pang sends a photograph of another bee from Gorge Park &#8211; kindly identified by Linc Best as <strong><em>Dianthidium <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dianthidium.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dianthidium.jpg\" width=\"475.2\" height=\"480.97165991902835\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Dianthidium sp. <\/em>(Hym.:\u00a0 Megachilidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Annie also sends photographs of a fly from Gorge Park.\u00a0 She writes:\u00a0 This is easily the largest syrphid I have ever seen!\u00a0 To give perspective, it is on a huge Shasta Daisy.\u00a0 I have never seen a syrphid this large.\u00a0 Dr Jeff Skevington writes:\u00a0 Cool! It is <strong><em>Myathropa<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>florea<\/em><\/strong>, a species recently introduced to California from Europe. It is known from British Columbia but it only arrived recently.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Annie syrphid1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Annie-syrphid1.jpg\" width=\"429.6\" height=\"402.213\" name=\"\" \/><img class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Myathropa florea <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Annie syrphid3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Annie-syrphid3.jpg\" width=\"429.6\" height=\"398.99100000000004\" name=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Myathropa florea <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Annie sends another bee photograph from Gorge Park, June 30. Identified by Linc Best as <strong><em>Mellissodes microsticta<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Melissodes2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Melissodes2.jpg\" width=\"429.6\" height=\"389.862\" name=\"\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 <em>Melissodes\u00a0<\/em><em>microsticta<\/em> (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 On Tuesday June 28, there was a single <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> in Outerbridge Park along Royal Oak Avenue near Lochside School.\u00a0 Down Lochside Drive off Royal Oak Avenue\u00a0 I as well as the Tuesday Group that I was with saw a<strong> Pale<\/strong> <strong>Tiger Swallowtail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I saw a <strong>Red Admiral <\/strong>at UVic yesterday (June 29), and, today, a <strong>Red Admiral <\/strong>ecloded (emerged) from the chrysalis shown on June 19.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t manage to photograph it, but I released it at the top of Mount Tolmie, so, if you see an absolutely pristine fresh one there this evening, that will probably be it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 June 30 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang sends a photograph of another bee from Gorge Park &#8211; kindly identified by Linc Best as Dianthidium sp. \u00a0 Dianthidium sp. (Hym.:\u00a0 Megachilidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang \u00a0\u00a0 Annie also sends photographs of a fly from Gorge Park.\u00a0 She writes:\u00a0 This is easily the largest syrphid I have ever seen!\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/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-2802","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\/2802","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=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}