{"id":4318,"date":"2017-06-01T19:53:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T02:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2017-06-01T20:01:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T03:01:51","slug":"june-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4318","title":{"rendered":"June 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Ken Vaughan photographed some dragon\/damselflies at the Beaver Lake Retreiver Ponds on May 28.  The last of these five puzzled us a bit, so we are thankful to Rob Cannings for confirming that it is an immature female Pacific Forktail<\/strong>.  Rob remarks that females of this species are pretty variable in colour, especially when young.<\/p>\n

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Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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 Four-spotted Skimmer Libellula quadrimaculata <\/em>(Odo,: Libellulidae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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California Darner Rhionaeschna californica <\/em> (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Dot-tailed Whiteface Leucorrhinia intacta <\/em> (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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\"\"Immature female Pacific Forktail Ischnura cervula <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  <\/div>\n

Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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   Here is another photograph of  <\/strong>Leucoma salicis<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>from Metchosin, taken by Jochen Moehr on his android device.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Leucoma salicis <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriidae)  Jochen Moehr<\/div>\n

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   Jochen notes that he saw his first Anise Swallowtail <\/strong>of the year three days ago.<\/p>\n

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   Gordon Hart writes:  I walked up Observatory Hill today, and saw only one butterfly – a Propertius Duskywing<\/strong> near the small observatory near the summit.  At home, we have been seeing a Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> since May 27th, and on the 29th, I saw my first two Cedar Hairstreaks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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   Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius <\/em> (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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   Annie Pang found a highflyer (<\/strong>Hydriomena <\/em> <\/strong>sp.) <\/strong>on her back porch on May 29.  There are several look-alike species of highflyer, and we are not certain which this one is.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Highflyer Hydriomena <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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   Aziza Cooper found a colourful snail at Witty’s Lagoon on May 31.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Cepaea nemoralis <\/em>(Pul.: Helicidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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   Erratum<\/em><\/strong><\/span>   Thanks to Jeff Skevington for pointing out that the fly we had labelled yesterday as a House Fly Musca domestica<\/em> is in fact a blow fly of the family Sarcophagidae.  I have corrected the label.  I don’t believe anyone has yet photographed a genuine House Fly for Invert Alert.  They don’t actually seem to be that common these days.  There’s a challenge for photographers.<\/p>\n

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   Dar Churcher photographed another fly from Colwood, and we are grateful to Jeff Skevington for kindly identifying it for us as a female Sphaerophoria<\/em>.   The small beetle is the dermestid Anthrenus verbasci<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Sphaerophoria <\/em>sp. <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)  Dar Churcher<\/div>\n

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2017 June 1      Ken Vaughan photographed some dragon\/damselflies at the Beaver Lake Retreiver Ponds on May 28.  The last of these five puzzled us a bit, so we are thankful to Rob Cannings for confirming that it is an immature female Pacific Forktail.  Rob remarks that females of this species are pretty variable […]<\/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-4318","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\/4318","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=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}