{"id":3332,"date":"2016-10-05T07:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2016-10-05T08:50:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:50:49","slug":"october-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3332","title":{"rendered":"October 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 October 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Bruce Whittington sends a photograph of a fly from Parksville. Thanks to Rob Cannings for confirming its identification as a <strong> soldier fly.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>With this clue, Bruce managed to track it down to probable species.\u00a0 Although soldier flies comprise a huge family, Stratiomyidae, Bruce&#8217;s fly is surely in the genus <em>Sargus<\/em>, and almost certainly <em><strong>Sargus decorus<\/strong><\/em>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 385px; height: 463px;\" title=\"soldier.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/soldier-1.jpg\" name=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Soldier fly\u00a0<em>Sargus decorus<\/em> (Dip.:\u00a0 Stratiomyidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Bruce Whittington<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks also to Rob for correcting my (Jeremy Tatum) identification of Mike Yip\u2019s October 3 dragonfly &#8211; and my apologies, Mike!\u00a0\u00a0 The correct label is now given in the October 3 posting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0 The caterpillar season isn\u2019t quite over.\u00a0 Libby Avis sends photographs of four noctuid caterpillars, none of which I (Jeremy Tatum) have been able to identify.\u00a0 The first (which is just about to undergo ecdysis into its final instar) was on fir at Little Qualicum fish hatchery, September 28.\u00a0 The second was rolled in a poplar leaf at Sproat Lake, September 24.\u00a0 The third was on nettle at Little Qualicum fish hatchery, September 27.\u00a0 The fourth was on Salmonberry at Cameron Lake, September 27.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"1a - lateral - on fir - Little Qualicum Hatchery_MG_0248ar.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1a-lateral-on-fir-Little-Qualicum-Hatchery_MG_0248ar-1.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"355.8540084388186\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Caterpillar 1 (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2a dorsal - in web on poplar - Sproat Lake_MG_0064ar.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2a-dorsal-in-web-on-poplar-Sproat-Lake_MG_0064ar-1.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"473.54132231404964\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Caterpillar 2 (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3b on nettle - Little Qualicum Hatchery_MG_0207ar.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/3b-on-nettle-Little-Qualicum-Hatchery_MG_0207ar.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"533.3811398963732\" 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_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Caterpillar 3 (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"4a lateral on Salmonberry - Cameron Lake_MG_0147ar.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/4a-lateral-on-Salmonberry-Cameron-Lake_MG_0147ar.jpg\" width=\"599.2\" height=\"386.8747826086957\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Caterpillar 4 (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Libby Avis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 October 4 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Bruce Whittington sends a photograph of a fly from Parksville. Thanks to Rob Cannings for confirming its identification as a soldier fly.\u00a0\u00a0 With this clue, Bruce managed to track it down to probable species.\u00a0 Although soldier flies comprise a huge family, Stratiomyidae, Bruce&#8217;s fly is surely in the genus Sargus, [&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-3332","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\/3332","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=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}