{"id":2912,"date":"2016-07-15T14:53:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T22:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2016-07-15T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T22:56:08","slug":"july-15-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2912","title":{"rendered":"July 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2106 July 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Annie Pang sends some pictures from Gorge Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"792\" originalwidth=\"800\" name=\"\" title=\"Osmia.jpg\" height=\"590.04\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Osmia.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\"><em>Osmia lignaria  <\/em>(Hym.: Megachilidae)&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"786\" originalwidth=\"800\" name=\"\" title=\"Hover.jpg\" height=\"585.57\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hover.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">Hover fly (Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"765\" originalwidth=\"800\" name=\"\" title=\"Autographa.jpg\" height=\"569.925\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Autographa.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\"><em>Autographa californica  <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"561\" originalwidth=\"784\" name=\"\" title=\"Halictus.jpg\" height=\"426.4744897959184\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Halictus.jpg\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\"><em>Halictus rubicundus  <\/em>(Hym.:&nbsp; Halictidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna sends photographs from the Kemp Lake area.&nbsp; Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying the beetle as  <strong><em>Leptura obliterata<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>  The bug is <strong><em>Philaenus spumaria<\/em><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>a <strong>  spittle bug<\/strong><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong>The nymph of this bug makes the little masses of frothy spittle that we see on low-down vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 359px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"359\" setheight=\"479\" originalheight=\"1200\" originalwidth=\"900\" name=\"\" title=\"rosemary beetle.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/rosemary-beetle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Leptura obliterata <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"932\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"rosemary spittle.jpg\" height=\"462.8933333333333\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/rosemary-spittle.jpg\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\"><em>Philaenus spumarius  <\/em>(Hem.: Cercopidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aziza Cooper writes:&nbsp; In Uplands Park near the corner of Dorset and Midland Roads on Wednesday, July 13, I saw my first  <strong>Woodland Skipper<\/strong> of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And Jeremy Tatum saw his first <strong>Pine White <\/strong>of the year at UVic, July 15.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"881\" originalwidth=\"1150\" name=\"\" title=\"F Woodland Skipper 2a.JPG\" height=\"456.58782608695657\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/F-Woodland-Skipper-2a.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image014.jpg\">Woodland Skipper  <em>Ochlodes sylvanoides<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2106 July 15 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends some pictures from Gorge Park. &nbsp; Osmia lignaria (Hym.: Megachilidae)&nbsp; Annie Pang &nbsp; Hover fly (Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang &nbsp; Autographa californica (Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Annie Pang &nbsp; Halictus rubicundus (Hym.:&nbsp; Halictidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna sends photographs from the Kemp Lake area.&nbsp; Thanks to [&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-2912","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\/2912","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=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}