{"id":2834,"date":"2016-07-06T19:31:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T03:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2016-07-07T15:25:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T22:25:41","slug":"july-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2834","title":{"rendered":"July 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 July 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Annie Pang has drawn my attention to the following notice:<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have often wished that we had someone who could identify pictures of Hymenoptera that are submitted to Invert Alert, so I hope that someone might be moved to attend this course!<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Today, July 6, I saw my first of the year Pine White<\/strong> in Cuthbert Holmes Park in a Douglas Fir tree.\u00a0 Last year on July 6th I saw my first Pine White and that time it was along Sooke Road. in Colwood.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum comments:\u00a0 Last year, 2015, the first Pine White was reported to Invert Alert on July 1, on Observatory Hill<\/p>\n

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Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 \u00a0I saw this insect in a garden on Kemp Lake Rd this afternoon July 6 2016.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum comments: I got this wrong in the original version of this posting, misidentifying it as an ichneumonid looking for a beetle grub.\u00a0 My appeal for further help with the identification was answered by Libby Avis, who tells us that it is a horntail, Urocerus albicornis.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>It is not looking for a beetle grub at all.\u00a0 Rather, it is laying its egg in the wood, and its larva subsists upon the wood.\u00a0 Horntails are in the suborder “Symphyta” of the Hymenoptera, a suborder that also includes the sawflies.\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you, Libby!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Horntail Urocerus albicornis\u00a0<\/em>(Hym.:\u00a0 Siricidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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Horntail Urocerus albicornis\u00a0<\/em>(Hym.:\u00a0 Siricidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

Rosemary writes: There were four Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> enjoying the sunshine. This one was flying well not at all hampered by the damage to its wings.\u00a0 Kemp Lake Road, July 6.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

Rosemary continues: This Ladybird beetle<\/strong> was in a garden on the other side of Kemp Lake Road.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

Annie Pang writes: I got this picture at Gorge Park, Victoria, July 6, 2016 on Dogwood leaves.\u00a0 It was tiny so I was glad to get as close as I did.<\/p>\n

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Rob Cannings writes: This is a robber fly — <\/strong>Laphria ventralis<\/em><\/strong> (male). In Canada restricted to the southern Strait of Georgia region of coastal British Columbia. Normally, they are not what I\u2019d call \u201ctiny\u201d (about 15 or so mm long) [Jeremy Tatum interjects:\u00a0 the few I have seen have been enormous<\/span>!], but there can be considerable variation in size among specimens of a single species of asilid.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Robber fly Laphria ventralis <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae) Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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2016 July 6 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang has drawn my attention to the following notice:   Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have often wished that we had someone who could identify pictures of Hymenoptera that are submitted to Invert Alert, so I hope that someone might be moved to attend this course!   Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/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-2834","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\/2834","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=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}