{"id":3078,"date":"2016-08-08T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T22:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T22:37:00","slug":"august-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3078","title":{"rendered":"August 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 August 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

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HOLIDAY<\/strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Just a reminder that I\u2019m going on holiday – to England – tomorrow, and consequently I shall not be running Invertebrate Alert until I get back on August 27.\u00a0\u00a0 By all means continue to send in observations and photographs during this time (but they will not be processed or posted until I get back), but please try and restrict yourselves to truly noteworthy observations and your best photographs, and try not to overwhelm me with oodles of photographs of our most frequently-photographed insects!<\/p>\n

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It will still be of interest, of course, to try and record the dates of the latest Lorquin\u2019s Admiral and Western Tiger Swallowtails.\u00a0 That reminds me that I saw a Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<\/strong> at UVic today, shortly before I came into the office to type this posting.\u00a0 And Jeff Gaskin reports a Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> today from Gorge Park across from Millgrove Avenue.<\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart reports on yesterday\u2019s (August 7) VNHS Butterfly Walk as follows:<\/p>\n

Despite a cloudy start to the day, by 1 p.m. the sun had appeared\u00a0and we saw our first butterfly on Mount Tolmie- the Anise Swallowtail<\/strong> around the fennel at the summit. [Jeremy Tatum remarks: The Anise Swallowtail is at least partially bivoltine, so it is quite possible that it may be thinking of laying eggs on the Fennel there.\u00a0 Might be worth searching for.]\u00a0 \u00a0Two more butterfliers (Val George and Aziza Cooper) joined me and we went out to Island View Beach, where we found at least 10 Ringlets (Large Heaths)<\/strong> in the meadows along the way, and a total of 15-20 by the end of the trip. We did not find any Purplish Coppers so perhaps their season is over. We arrived at the spit by the sewage plant parking lot and saw lots of Woodland Skippers<\/strong>. We started looking at each skipper carefully. Val found the first Western Branded Skipper<\/strong>, I found one sunning on the path and Aziza found a third one nearby. These were all along the fence line on the way out to the tip of the spit in the general area where Steve Ansell and Val had seen them recently. The only other butterflies we saw were four Cabbage Whites<\/strong>. \u00a0Later, Aziza saw a Red Admiral<\/strong> back at Mount Tolmie.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Branded Skipper Hesperia <\/em>colorado<\/em> (Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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\"\"Western Branded Skipper Hesperia <\/em>colorado<\/em> (Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza adds:\u00a0 Sand Wasps<\/strong> with banded abdomens were common on Gumweed north of Island View Beach.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Sand Wasp Bembix <\/em>americana<\/em> (Hym.: Crabronidae – Bembicinae) Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I recently had a little discussion with Sean McCann about the spelling of Bembix<\/em>.\u00a0 Bembix, Bembex <\/em>and Bembyx<\/em> are all to be seen, and each of these spellings could be defended as the \u201ccorrect\u201d one.\u00a0\u00a0 Current usage, at least in North America, seems to favour Bembix<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Annie Pang sends a photograph of a colourful male sweat bee <\/strong> (Halictidae) from Gorge Park, August 7, identified by Annie as Agapostemon texanus<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Agapostemon texanus <\/em>(Hym.: Halictidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Agapostemon texanus <\/em>(Hym.: Halictidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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