{"id":4090,"date":"2017-05-07T11:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T18:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2017-05-09T10:44:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T17:44:54","slug":"may-7-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4090","title":{"rendered":"May 7, morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 May 7 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Annie Pang sends a photograph of a pair of Harmonia axyridis <\/em><\/strong>not wasting any time.\u00a0 This is a very variable species of ladybird, but the black W <\/strong>on the pronotum identifies it as this species.<\/p>\n

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Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Mike Yip writes:\u00a0 Butterflies are still scarce around Nanoose Bay, but I did see a few Sara Orangetips, Western Spring Azures, <\/strong>and Western Brown Elfins<\/strong>. A surprise find was a Hoary (\u201cZephyr\u201d) Comma<\/strong> at Cross Road – they are usually at higher elevations and Cross Road is\u00a0probably less than 50 m.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Hoary (\u201cZephyr\u201d) Comma Polygonia gracilis zephyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang sends two spider pictures, and we thank Robb Bennett for his comments and identifications.<\/p>\n

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Of the first picture, Robb comments: Young orb-weavers \/ garden spiders, starting to disperse.\u00a0 They have overwintered in an egg case hidden away somewhere last fall by their dear departed mother.\u00a0 Likely your spiders are young of Araneus diadematus<\/em><\/strong> – a species introduced years ago from Europe and one of the most common orb-weavers in southeastern BC.\u00a0 Could also be one of our native orb weavers — I can’t tell them apart as juveniles.<\/p>\n

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Of the second, he comments:\u00a0 That’s another introduced species — a female [you can clearly see her epigynum (mating apparatus) on her abdomen] giant house spider.\u00a0 Now Eratigena atrica<\/em><\/strong>, formerly Tegenaria duellica<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Araneus diadematus <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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\"\"Eratigena atrica <\/em>(Ara.: Agelenidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Ken Vaughan sends more pictures from Beaver Lake Ponds, April 6.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Leafhopper Hordnia atropunctata <\/em>(Hem.: Cicadellidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n

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\"\"Midge (Dip.: Chironomidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n

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\"\"Ellychnia hatchi <\/em>(Col.: Lampyridae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n

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\"\"Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)<\/div>\n

Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum comments:\u00a0 Unusual foodplant.\u00a0 Not sure what it is – Thimbleberry, maybe – but the caterpillar seems to be enjoying it anyway.\u00a0 Usual foodplant is Douglas Fir.<\/p>\n

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Ken Found the moth below at his home this morning.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Cyclophora dataria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 On May 4 I thought I would check the Pike Lake Substation pond area past the yellow gate. There were lots of \u00a0Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, at least 20,\u00a0 two Sara Orangetips<\/strong>, a Painted Lady<\/strong>, and a fresh Two-banded Grizzled Skipper<\/strong> nectaring on wild strawberry. \u00a0[Jeremy comments:\u00a0 Interesting – that\u2019s also the larval foodplant.]\u00a0 A Propertius Duskywing<\/strong> flew off before I had a proper look I also attach a picture of a click beetle<\/strong> I saw at Francis\/King Park.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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\"\"Two-banded Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus ruralis <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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\"\"Click beetle Selatosomus suckleyi <\/em>(Col.: Elateridae) Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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2017 May 7 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang sends a photograph of a pair of Harmonia axyridis not wasting any time.\u00a0 This is a very variable species of ladybird, but the black W on the pronotum identifies it as this species.   Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang   Mike Yip writes:\u00a0 Butterflies are still […]<\/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-4090","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\/4090","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=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4126,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}