{"id":339,"date":"2015-09-24T17:14:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T00:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=339"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:00","slug":"september-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"September 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

2015 September 23<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to autumn!  Apologies for no news for a few days – have been having a little computer trouble, but I think I have it organized now.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Jeff Gaskin writes:  A Red Admiral<\/strong> flew across Douglas Street and south of Bay Street around 11:30 a.m. on September 21.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wendy Ansell writes: Today (September 22) Gerry and I saw 3, possibly 4, very fresh Red Admirals<\/strong> by the beach at Aylard Farm, East Sooke Regional Park.  There was also 1 Pine White<\/strong> further west along the trail.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rosemary Jorna sends photographs of Araneus diadematus<\/strong><\/em>.  <\/strong>This is called the Common Garden Spider – but so are a few other species of spider!  This one is a European species.  She also sends a photograph of a Drone Fly <\/strong>Eristalis tenax<\/strong><\/em>, <\/strong>also a European. Jeremy Tatum writes: The fly bears a sufficient resemblance to a drone Honey Bee that it had me guessing for a while – I wasn’t 100 percent certain whether I was looking at a fly or a bee!  Rosemary’s photographs were taken from Broomhill in Otter Point or in Kemp Lake Road.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Araneus diadematus <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/span><\/p>\n

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Araneus diadematus <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/span><\/p>\n

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Araneus diadematus <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/span><\/p>\n

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Drone Fly Eristalis tenax <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/span><\/p>\n

   Jody Ells sends a photograph of a grasshopper from Saanichton Spit.  Can anyone identify it for us?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Grasshopper (Orth.: Acrididae) Jody Wells<\/span><\/p>\n

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Lots of Banded Woolly Bears<\/strong> in the Martindale area today, though more had been trodden on than one would expect by accident.  I can’t help wondering if the normal reaction of many humans on seeing a caterpillar is to tread on it – just as the normal reaction to seeing a nice mushroom is to kick it over.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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