{"id":3662,"date":"2017-02-14T08:12:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T16:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2017-02-14T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T00:16:28","slug":"february-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3662","title":{"rendered":"February 14"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Nathan Fisk writes (February 13):  With the Sun come the inverts! Only one buzzing around the daisies at Fort Rodd Hill. Looks a lot like the fly I saw in February last year but I’m no expert.  Jeremy Tatum responds:  Nor am I, but I’m certain that this is a drone fly <\/strong>Eristalis <\/em><\/strong>sp., <\/strong>and very close to certain that it is “the”  Drone Fly <\/strong>Eristalis tenax<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  <\/strong>Jeremy continues:  Yes, invertebrates are coming back, and I had two noctuid moths at my Saanich apartment this morning (February 14), both of them Egira hiemalis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>  <\/strong>This is the first of our woodling<\/strong> moths to appear early in the year.  “Hiemalis” means “of the winter”.  I looked up in the Index to this site (click on INVERTEBRATE ALERT at the very top of the Invert Alert site to find the Index) and I see that Egira hiemalis <\/em>has appeared on this site on dates ranging from January 21 to March 26.  I have never seen the caterpillar, but Bob Duncan gives the foodplant as Douglas Fir.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Drone Fly Eristalis tenax <\/em>(Dip.:  Syrphidae)  Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n

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 Egira hiemalis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)   Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2107 February 14      Nathan Fisk writes (February 13):  With the Sun come the inverts! Only one buzzing around the daisies at Fort Rodd Hill. Looks a lot like the fly I saw in February last year but I’m no expert.  Jeremy Tatum responds:  Nor am I, but I’m certain that this is a […]<\/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-3662","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\/3662","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=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}