{"id":4525,"date":"2017-06-26T20:13:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T03:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2017-06-29T20:09:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T03:09:26","slug":"june-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4525","title":{"rendered":"June 26"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 June 26<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 A few Painted Ladies,<\/strong> Red Admirals, Lorquin\u2019s Admirals, Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> and one West Coast Lady<\/strong> on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 6:00 p.m. tonight.\u00a0 On looking closely at the West Coast Lady, I became fairly sure that it may well have been the same individual that Val George photographed a few days ago (see June 16 posting).\u00a0 I find that I can pick out the West Coast Lady in flight – the orange seems a slightly different shade than the orange of the Painted Ladies.<\/p>\n

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Ken Vaughan writes:\u00a0 I was out to Beaver Lake on Saturday morning, and I took some photographs.<\/p>\n

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

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Pacific Forkail Ischnura cervula <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Red Admirable Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae) Ken Vaughan\"\"<\/p>\n

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Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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\"\"Banasa dimiata <\/em>(Hem.: Pentatomidae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n

Jeremy Tatum comments:\u00a0 For those still a little uncertain about beetles and bugs, Banasa dimiata<\/em> is about as typical a bug as you can get.\u00a0 The tip of the pronotum in dimiata <\/em>is usually yellow.\u00a0 This introduces a note of uncertainty into the identification. \u00a0Maybe it is another species.\u00a0 If any expert out there can help, please let us know.\u00a0 Ken sees a green chalice on the back.\u00a0 I see it, too.\u00a0 Can you?<\/p>\n

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Ken has chosen to use the name \u201cRed Admirable\u201d for Vanessa atalanta<\/em>.\u00a0 Although the name used most often these days is Red Admiral, it has been suggested that \u201cAdmiral\u201d was originally \u201cAdmirable\u201d, and it has lost a syllable along the way.\u00a0 It has been advocated that we should restrict the name \u201cAdmiral\u201d to the Limenitis <\/em> \u00a0group.\u00a0 It is true that Moses Harris, in his 1840 book The Aurelian<\/em>, called atalanta <\/em>\u201cThe Admirable\u201d.\u00a0 However, if we go back still further, to the seventeenth century, James Petiver, who introduced many of the English names for butterflies, called it the Red Admiral – so it looks as though Harris added a syllable, and today\u2019s \u201cAdmiral\u201d agrees with Petiver\u2019s original name.<\/p>\n

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Rosemary Jorna photographed the beetle below at Jordan River on June 22.\u00a0 There are more species of beetle than of any other Order in the animal Kingdom – which means, unfortunately, that we cannot always identify each one with certainty.\u00a0 However, thanks to Charlene Wood, we know at least the Family of this one – Bupestridae.<\/p>\n

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Bupestrid beetle (Col.: Bupestridae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Annie Pang photographed a bee-like robber fly<\/strong> in Gorge Park, June 25.\u00a0 Annie is showing us what a great variety of creatures are to be found even in a rather urban park, without trekking far into the wilderness.\u00a0 Rob Cannings comments:\u00a0 This is a female Laphria<\/em>, either L. asturina<\/em><\/strong> or L. fernaldi<\/em><\/strong>. I believe there is a good possibility that both these names refer to the same species and any small colour differences used in keys to separate them are insignificant. Anyway, that’s the identification situation concerning the common southern BC Laphria<\/em> with red hairs on the abdomen!<\/p>\n

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Bee-like robber fly Laphria asturina<\/em>\/fernaldi <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Bee-like robber fly Laphria asturina<\/em>\/fernaldi <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 Sid found this spider while cleaning the garage today, June 25, Kemp Lake Area.\u00a0\u00a0 Sean McCann writes:\u00a0 This is Steatoda grossa<\/em><\/strong>, the False Black<\/strong> Widow<\/strong>.\u00a0 Very common in places like garages!<\/p>\n

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False Black Widow Steadota grossa <\/em>(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Jochen Moehr writes: I watched a P. rapae<\/em><\/strong> busily depositing eggs on some brassicaceous plants on Taylor Beach, close to the cliff drop-off among the drift wood. \u00a0I also took some pictures of the plants.\u00a0 They clearly are some kind of Brassicaceae, but I was unable to get clues to the identification.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum responds:\u00a0 Cabbage Whites quite often lay their eggs on these plants on the seashore.\u00a0 The plant is Sea Rocket Cakile<\/em> sp., but it will need a better botanist than I to say whether it is the native American Sea Rocket C. edentula<\/em> or the European Sea Rocket C. maritima<\/em>.\u00a0 I believe both occur here.\u00a0 If some botanist can help us, please do so!\u00a0 (More detailed pics of the plant are available.)<\/p>\n

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Two Cabbage White ova Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae) Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of two larvae found in Saanich today, June 26.<\/p>\n

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

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Giant sawfly larva\u00a0 Trichiosoma triangulum <\/em> (Hym.: Cimbicidae) Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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2017 June 26 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 A few Painted Ladies, Red Admirals, Lorquin\u2019s Admirals, Western Tiger Swallowtails and one West Coast Lady on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 6:00 p.m. tonight.\u00a0 On looking closely at the West Coast Lady, I became fairly sure that it may well have been the same individual that […]<\/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-4525","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\/4525","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=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}