{"id":4459,"date":"2017-06-21T16:33:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T23:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2017-06-23T08:56:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T15:56:32","slug":"june-21-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4459","title":{"rendered":"June 20"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 June 20<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to Summer<\/strong><\/p>\n

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[Actually the solstice was at 9:24 pm PDT last night – but today is the first full day of summer.]<\/p>\n

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Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a grasshopper.\u00a0 Grasshoppers are usually most evident later on in the year; this one is a young nymph (see its underdeveloped wings) and is not readily identifiable.\u00a0 With that proviso in mind, Claudia Copley\u2019s best guess is maybe a species of Melanoplus<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Young grasshopper (Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/div>\n

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Aziza Cooper writes: Today, June 20, there were 10 Field Crescents<\/strong> at Eddy’s Self Storage and the field north of the restaurant at the corner of West Saanich and Stelly’s Cross Road. I took pictures of seven, and was interested to see some with the wide orange band on the submarginal band of the hind-wing.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I believe these are all females, with the possible exception of the one on the left in the third photograph, which may be a male suitor, though we can\u2019t see the wing pattern well enough to be sure.<\/p>\n

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Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.:Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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\"\"Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.:Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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Field Crescents Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.:Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Aziza also photographed the long-horned beetle Cosmosalia chrysocoma<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>(\u201cgolden hair\u201d) at the same location.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Cosmosalia chrysocoma <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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