{"id":3971,"date":"2017-04-26T03:26:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T03:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2017-04-27T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T21:02:07","slug":"april-25-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"April 25"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Annie Pang sends a photograph of a hover fly (syrphid)<\/strong>, from Gorge Park, April 24.\u00a0 As flies go, syrphids are relatively attractive insects, but are, unfortunately, notoriously difficult to identify to species from photographs. Specialists often want to check out the shape of a tiny structure at the base of the wing, called a calypter.<\/p>\n

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Hover fly (Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Annie also sends a photograph of a bee fly (Bombyliid).<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>They are parasitoids of Andrena <\/em>bees.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Bee fly Bombylius <\/em>sp.(Dip.:\u00a0 Bombyliidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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Rosemary Jorna sends some fascinating photographs of a globose springtail<\/strong> from Mount Bluff (above Camp Bernard), April 24.\u00a0\u00a0 (Still no butterflies, she writes!)\u00a0 Since springtails are no longer considered to be insects (Class Insecta), and Collembola no longer an Order, I believe the current classification of Rosemary\u2019s animal is something like this:<\/p>\n

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Phylum Arthropoda<\/p>\n

Subphylum Hexapoda<\/p>\n

Class Entognatha<\/p>\n

Subclass Collembola (springtails)<\/p>\n

Order Symphypleona (globose springtails)<\/p>\n

Family \u00a0Dicyrtomidae<\/p>\n

Genus Ptenothrix<\/em><\/p>\n

Species Ptenothrix maculosa<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Ptenothrix maculosa <\/em>(Symphypleona: Dicyrtomidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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Ptenothrix maculosa <\/em>(Symphypleona: Dicyrtomidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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\"\"Ptenothrix maculosa <\/em>(Symphypleona: Dicyrtomidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

Jochen Moehr has recently moved to a new part of Metchosin – near Lindholm Road – and it appears to be an exciting place for moths.\u00a0 He has sent a big bunch of photographs taken on the stucco today.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I\u2019m posting now the few that I have been able to identify today.\u00a0 Others will be posted as we manage to identify them.<\/p>\n

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The first is another one in the Egira rubrica\/perlubens <\/em>puzzle – except that now that we have sorted that puzzle out, I am sure that Jochen\u2019s moth is a classic no-questions Egira rubrica<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Viewers may find it interesting to compare it with the images of the two species on the April 24 posting.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Egira rubrica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0 The moth below may be Hydriomena californiata<\/em><\/strong>, though Libby Avis warns that April is a bit early for this species, and that some of the Hydriomena <\/em>(highflyers) are really tricky, so it could be another species.<\/div>\n
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\"\"Hydriomena<\/em> sp. (maybe californiata) <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Moehr<\/div>\n


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Feralia comstocki <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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\"\"Behrensia conchiformis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/div>\n

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2107 April 25 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang sends a photograph of a hover fly (syrphid), from Gorge Park, April 24.\u00a0 As flies go, syrphids are relatively attractive insects, but are, unfortunately, notoriously difficult to identify to species from photographs. Specialists often want to check out the shape of a tiny structure at the base of […]<\/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-3971","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\/3971","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=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}