{"id":3288,"date":"2016-09-26T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T23:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2016-09-27T08:15:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:15:46","slug":"september-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3288","title":{"rendered":"September 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 September 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Gordon Hart\u2019s <strong>Cerisy\u2019s Eyed Hawk Moth<\/strong> caterpillar (see September 16 posting) has pupated.\u00a0 The pupa is shown below, next to a quarter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Smerinthus cerisyi pu.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Smerinthus-cerisyi-pu.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"341.33333333333337\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cerisy\u2019s Eyed Hawk Moth <em>Smerinthus cerisyi <\/em> (Lep.: Sphingidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0On Sunday, September 25, at the corner of Ocean Boulevard and Lagoon Road, we looked at a patch of Tansy growing along the roadside. Its yellow flowers were covered by dozens of <strong>ladybirds<\/strong> at various levels of maturity. I tried to get pictures showing each of the stages of development, but it was difficult. Perhaps one or more of the attached might give some idea of what we saw. Besides the ladybirds, there was a nice green <strong>Cuckoo Wasp<\/strong>, and two species of <strong>syrphid fly<\/strong>, and probably other creatures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ladybug 1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ladybug-1.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>Harmonia axyridis <\/em>adult and larva (Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ladybug 2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ladybug-2.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Middle: Larvae of <em>Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bottom left: Pupa of <em>Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Right:\u00a0 Adult <em>Adalia bipunctata <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ladybug 3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ladybug-3.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Adults, pupae and one larva of <em>Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a <strong>Blue-eyed Darner <\/strong>from Swan Lake, September 26.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"N Dragonfly Swan Lk 1.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/N-Dragonfly-Swan-Lk-1.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"449.40000000000003\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Blue-eyed Darner <em>Rhionaeschna multicolor <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 September 26 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Gordon Hart\u2019s Cerisy\u2019s Eyed Hawk Moth caterpillar (see September 16 posting) has pupated.\u00a0 The pupa is shown below, next to a quarter. &nbsp; Cerisy\u2019s Eyed Hawk Moth Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae) \u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0On Sunday, September 25, at the corner of Ocean Boulevard and Lagoon Road, [&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-3288","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\/3288","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=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}