{"id":2847,"date":"2016-07-07T15:33:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2016-07-15T15:14:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T22:14:05","slug":"july-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2847","title":{"rendered":"July 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 July 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 Tuesday, July 5, the VNHS Tuesday birding group went to Panama Flats. We saw one Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong>, one Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>, 5 or 6 European (Essex) Skippers<\/strong> and numerous Cabbage Whites<\/strong>. A very spiky brown caterpillar was on the trail, a black and yellow bee on thistles and some interesting bugs on Queen Anne’s Lace (Wild Carrot).<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Thanks to Linc Best for identifying the bee.<\/p>\n

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Bombus vosnesenskii <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Well, neither of the insects on the Daucus carota<\/em> is a bug.\u00a0 The one on the left is an ichneumonid, and the one on the right is a cantharid beetle.\u00a0\u00a0 Beyond that I cannot go – but we would welcome suggestions.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Ichneumonid (Hym.: Ichneumonidae), and soldier beetle (Col.: Cantharidae) Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I knew what the \u201cvery spiky brown caterpillar\u201d was going to be before I saw the photograph!\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t handle these caterpillars – they can give you a nasty rash!\u00a0 The caterpillars feed on various shrubs of the Families Rosaceae and Caprifoliaceae.<\/p>\n

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Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae) Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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The June 29 Invert Alert reported Red Admirals <\/strong>from several localities, but I somehow managed to miss one reported on that date from Nanoose Bay, by Mike Yip. Here it is, a little late – my apologies!\u00a0 Jeremy<\/p>\n

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\"\"Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/div>\n

Mike also sends a picture of a very pretty \u201cmicro\u201d – Pyrausta perrubralis<\/em><\/strong> – <\/strong>from Nanoose Bay today.<\/p>\n

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Pyrausta perrubralis <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Crambidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Libby Avis sends a photo of a male velvet ant<\/strong>\u00a0 Dasymutilla <\/em><\/strong>sp. <\/strong>from Rathtrevor Provincial Park, July 5th<\/sup> 2016.\u00a0 These insects are more closely related to wasps than to ants, and the wingless females have a reputation of having an exceedingly painful sting. \u00a0This is the first velvet ant that we have had on this site.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Velvet Ant Dasymutilla <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Mutillidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/div>\n

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Rosemary Jorna photographed a sand wasp <\/strong>at Witty\u2019s Lagoon today, July 7.<\/p>\n

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Sand wasp Bembix <\/em>americana<\/em> (Hym.: Crabronidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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2016 July 7 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 Tuesday, July 5, the VNHS Tuesday birding group went to Panama Flats. We saw one Lorquin’s Admiral, one Western Tiger Swallowtail, 5 or 6 European (Essex) Skippers and numerous Cabbage Whites. A very spiky brown caterpillar was on the trail, a black and yellow bee on thistles […]<\/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-2847","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\/2847","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=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}