{"id":4048,"date":"2017-05-03T15:42:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T22:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2017-05-03T15:48:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T22:48:20","slug":"may-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4048","title":{"rendered":"May 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 May 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:<strong> <\/strong>On April 26 Ian Cruickshank sent some photographs of various flies at Green Point, Pacific Rim National Park.&nbsp; One of them was a species of  <em>Sericomyia <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp; (See April 27 evening posting), but we haven&#8217;t yet managed to identify the others.&nbsp; We post them here in the hope that some learned viewer out there might be able to identify them for us at least to Family.&nbsp; Email us at:&nbsp;&nbsp;   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;jtatum at uvic dot ca&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; We occasionally appeal to knowledgeable viewers to identify animals for us, though we don&#8217;t often get any response.&nbsp; Perhaps I should take the advice of the moderator of the Sussex (England) butterfly site &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk\/sightings\/\">www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk\/sightings\/<\/a>&nbsp;   &nbsp;&nbsp;who suggests that if we were to declare an insect as something it is not, this is certain to provoke a rapid response!&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll resort to this cunning strategy just yet, but it sounds like a good idea.&nbsp; In the meantime, if anyone out there can   identify any of Ian&#8217;s flies, we really, really would like to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 370px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"370\" setheight=\"415\" originalheight=\"947\" originalwidth=\"845\" name=\"\" title=\"Ian fly 1.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ian-fly-1.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fly 1 (Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp; Ian Cruickshank<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"388\" setheight=\"360\" style=\"width: 388px; height: 360px;\" originalheight=\"870\" originalwidth=\"937\" name=\"\" title=\"Ian fly 4.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ian-fly-4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">Fly 4 (Diptera)&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Cruickshank<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"666\" originalwidth=\"932\" name=\"\" title=\"Ian fly 5.JPG\" height=\"424.7536480686695\" width=\"594.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ian-fly-5.jpg\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;Fly 5 (Diptera)&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Cruickshank<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"703\" originalwidth=\"703\" name=\"\" title=\"Ian fly 6.JPG\" height=\"594.4\" width=\"594.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ian-fly-6.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">Fly 6 (Diptera)&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Cruickshank<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"898\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Ian fly 7.JPG\" height=\"444.8093333333333\" width=\"594.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ian-fly-7.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\">Fly 7 (Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp; Ian Cruickshank<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"764\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Ian fly 8.JPG\" height=\"378.43466666666666\" width=\"594.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ian-fly-8.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\">Fly 8&nbsp; (Diptera)&nbsp; Ian Cruickshank<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; We have received the following notice that may interest viewers.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 641px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"641\" setheight=\"321\" originalheight=\"600\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"BCBeeCourse2017 fin.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BCBeeCourse2017-fin-1.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image014.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends a photograph of a <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong> from April 24.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"899\" originalwidth=\"885\" name=\"\" title=\"Annie Azure.jpg\" height=\"603.8029378531073\" width=\"594.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Annie-Azure.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Spring Azure <em>Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) &nbsp;Annie Pang  <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image016.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?attachment_id=4049\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BCBeeCourse2017-fin-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300px\" height=\"150px\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BCBeeCourse2017-fin-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BCBeeCourse2017-fin-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BCBeeCourse2017-fin-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BCBeeCourse2017-fin.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 May 3 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Jeremy Tatum writes: On April 26 Ian Cruickshank sent some photographs of various flies at Green Point, Pacific Rim National Park.&nbsp; One of them was a species of Sericomyia (Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp; (See April 27 evening posting), but we haven&#8217;t yet managed to identify the others.&nbsp; We post them here in [&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-4048","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\/4048","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=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}