{"id":4660,"date":"2017-07-27T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T22:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2017-07-30T19:06:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T02:06:14","slug":"july-27-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4660","title":{"rendered":"July 27"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 July 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ren Ferguson sends some photographs taken on Pender Island on July 4 in brackish marsh habitat.\u00a0 We get very few aquatic animals on this site (challenge for photographers – please note!) so we welcome Ren\u2019s photograph of a long waterscorpion <\/strong>Ranatra <\/em><\/strong>sp.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I don\u2019t know if we\u2019ll be able to go below genus level. \u00a0 Dr Heather Proctor writes, of the red dots:<\/p>\n

The red blobs are water mites, and it’s 90% likely that they are Hydrachna<\/strong><\/em> (Hydrachnidae), which are the most common water mites parasitic on Hemiptera. But without a closer view I can’t be absolutely certain.<\/div>\n
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Long waterscorpion Ranatra <\/em>sp.: (Hem.: Nepidae) Ren Ferguson<\/p>\n

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Red-veined Meadowhawk Sympetrum madidum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Ren Ferguson<\/p>\n

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Larva of giant sawfly Trichiosoma triangulum <\/em> (Hym.: Cimbicidae) Ren Ferguson<\/p>\n

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Thomas Barbin sends a varied collection of insect close-ups.\u00a0 The first one from Pender Island, June 10:<\/p>\n

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Greater Night-stalking Tiger Beetle Omus dejeani <\/em>(Col.:\u00a0 Carabidae – Cicindelinae)<\/p>\n

Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 We have seen before on this site photographs of crab spiders overcoming much larger bees and wasps.\u00a0 This one is another spectacular example.\u00a0 Photographed in the Highlands District, June 21.\u00a0 The bee is Bombus <\/em>sp. (mixtus, flavifrons <\/em>and ternarius <\/em>all look like reasonable fits) and the spider is Mecaphesa <\/em>sp.<\/p>\n

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Bumblebee Bombus <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Apidae)<\/p>\n

Crab spider Mecaphesa <\/em>sp.(Ara.: Thomisidae)<\/p>\n

Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

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A spider found in the Highlands District, June 21:<\/p>\n

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Phrurotimpus borealis <\/em>(Ara.: Phrurolithidae) Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

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An unusual beetle from Goldstream Campground, July 1:<\/p>\n

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Phellopsis porcata <\/em>(Col.: Zopheridae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 A bug from Goldstream Park, July 5:<\/p>\n

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Two-spotted\u00a0Grass Bug Stenotus binotatus <\/em> (Hem.: Miridae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 A sharp-tailed leafcutter bee from Island View Beach, July 7:<\/p>\n

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Coelioxys <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Megachilidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 A thread-tailed wasp, also from Island View Beach, July 7:<\/p>\n

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Prionyx parkeri <\/em>(Hym.: Sphecidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 A cuckoo wasp, Island View Beach – evidently a good place for interesting bees and wasps – July 13:<\/p>\n

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Probably Chrysis <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Chrysididae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

\u00a0 A sand wasp from – you\u00a0 guessed it – Island View Beach, July 13:<\/p>\n

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Sand wasp Bembix <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Crabronidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 A strikingly-coloured jumping spider, Island View Beach, July 13:<\/p>\n

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Habronattus americanus <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Lastly, two photographs of a longhorn beetle from Goldstream Campground, July 26.\u00a0 Thanks to Scott Gilmore for the identification.<\/p>\n

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Strophiona laeta <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

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Strophiona laeta <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0 Thomas Barbin<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a teneral damselfly from Martindale Road, July 23.\u00a0 Aziza writes that there were 45 Cabbage Whites <\/strong>over the cabbage field there.\u00a0 Rob Cannings writes:\u00a0 Yes, this is a teneral… (an individual, soon after moulting\/emergence, whose cuticle is almost colourless and still unhardened). This is a male Tule Bluet<\/strong> Enallagma carunculatum<\/em><\/strong>. In this species, the superior appendages (cerci) are distinctive and are visible in this photo The middle abdominal appendages have much black dorsally, more than the other common local species have.<\/p>\n

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Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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2017 July 27 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Ren Ferguson sends some photographs taken on Pender Island on July 4 in brackish marsh habitat.\u00a0 We get very few aquatic animals on this site (challenge for photographers – please note!) so we welcome Ren\u2019s photograph of a long waterscorpion Ranatra sp.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if we\u2019ll be able to […]<\/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-4660","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\/4660","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=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4687,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions\/4687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}