{"id":3112,"date":"2016-08-28T10:38:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2016-08-29T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T21:04:16","slug":"august-28-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3112","title":{"rendered":"August 28"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 August 28<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Back from holiday in England.\u00a0 Sorry for the hiatus in Invert Alert, but we are ready to get going again.\u00a0 On my first full day in Sussex, England, August 11, I saw 12 species of butterfly.\u00a0 This made me feel guilty, because I had arranged a day out on August 13 with David Harris, Sussex butterfly enthusiast, and I was afraid that I had seen so many species that there wouldn\u2019t have been any left for David to show me.\u00a0 How wrong I was!\u00a0 On August 13 he showed me an additional<\/span> 14 species – so that was 26 species in two days!\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you, David Harris, for setting aside a whole day to go out a-butterflying with me!<\/p>\n

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Now back to Vancouver Island.\u00a0 Just before I left, I inadvertently missed out an observation from Gordon Hart of a Grey Hairstreak <\/strong>in his Highlands garden, August 6.<\/p>\n

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On August 8 we posted photographs from Annie Pang of a brilliantly coloured halictid bee, Agapostemon texanus.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Annie\u2019s photo was of a male, with a banded abdomen.\u00a0 Aziza Cooper managed to get a quickie photo, at Swan Lake on August 8, of a very active female – whose abdomen is the same brilliant green as the head and thorax.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Female Agapostemon texanus <\/em>(Hym.: Halictidae)<\/div>\n

Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Aziza also sends a photo of a caterpillar of the Spotted Tiger Moth<\/strong> from the railing of the wooden boardwalk at Swan Lake, August 22.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae- Arctiinae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Liam Singh sends a photograph of a caterpillar of Cerisy\u2019s Eyed Hawk Moth<\/strong> from Pedder Bay, August 22.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Cerisy\u2019s Eyed Hawk Moth Smerinthus cerisyi <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)\u00a0 Liam Singh<\/div>\n

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Helen Johnson sends a picture of the spectacular Banded Alder Borer<\/strong> from Willows Beach.\u00a0 Thanks to Scott Gilmore for the identification.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Banded Alder Borer Rosalia funebris <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0 Helen Johnson<\/div>\n

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Jody Wells sends pictures of Woodland Skippers from Brentwood Bay<\/p>\n

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\"\"Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae) Jody Wells<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em> (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 He also sends photographs of Large Heath (\u201cRinglet\u201d) <\/strong>from Cordova Spit.<\/p>\n

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Large Heath Coenonympha tullia <\/em><\/p>\n

(Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyridae)<\/p>\n

Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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\"\"Large Heath Coenonympha tullia <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyridae)<\/div>\n
Jody Wells<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper reports a Red Admiral<\/strong> and a Woodland Skipper<\/strong> from the tip of Sidney Island Spit, August 27.<\/p>\n

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We also have photos of grasshoppers and bush crickets waiting in the Invert Alert Inbox – but they will have to wait for another day, while we try to get them identified.<\/p>\n

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2016 August 28 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Back from holiday in England.\u00a0 Sorry for the hiatus in Invert Alert, but we are ready to get going again.\u00a0 On my first full day in Sussex, England, August 11, I saw 12 species of butterfly.\u00a0 This made me feel guilty, because I had arranged a day […]<\/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-3112","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\/3112","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=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}