{"id":4688,"date":"2017-07-30T19:31:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T02:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2017-07-30T19:36:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T02:36:53","slug":"july-30-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"July 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Heather Proctor gives a probable identification of the mites on Ren Ferguson’s July 27 photograph of a long water scorpion. Scroll down to July 27 to see.<\/p>\n

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   Today’s (July 30) issue of the Times-Colonist<\/em> page D2 carries an item about a nature photographic contest organized by the SPCA.  Proceeds from the competition go towards WildARC.  Insects are included in the eligible subjects. (It doesn’t mention other invertebrates!)  The quality of photographs submitted to our Invert Alert site is exceedingly high.  I would encourage contributors to have a go at the SPCA competition.<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes that he found a caterpillar of a Red Admiral <\/strong> at Witty Beach Road, Metchosin, today.<\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Bill Katz sends a photograph of a Panthea<\/em><\/strong> sp. <\/strong>from Goldstream Park.  It closely resembles the moth that I (Jeremy Tatum) posted on June 24 and which I labelled P. virginarius. <\/em> However, I am now wondering of both of them might in fact be P. acronyctoides<\/em>.  Am looking into it, and will post if we make any progress!<\/p>\n

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Panthea <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Bill Katz<\/p>\n

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   Bill also photographed a caddisfly<\/strong> at Goldstream:<\/p>\n

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Caddisfly (Trichoptera)  Bill Katz<\/p>\n

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   Ren Ferguson photographed a spectacular Sphinx perelegans <\/em> <\/strong>on her railing on Salt Spring Island, July 29.<\/p>\n

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Sphinx perelegans <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)  Ren Ferguson<\/p>\n

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   Ken Vaughan was busy at Fork Lake in the Highlands on July 29.<\/p>\n

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Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Campaea perlata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Hydriomena nevadae <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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   Of the next one, Ken comments that “it is the neatest geometrid I have seen in a while.”<\/p>\n

The caterpillar of this moth is even more remarkable.  We’ll have to look out and see if we can find and photograph one.  I think the colour pattern of the moth is what is called “disruptive coloration”.  It divides the moth into two sharply demarcated areas, neither of which has the shape of any sort of insect or edible morsel.<\/p>\n

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Nematocampa resistaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Perizoma curvilinea <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Caripeta aequaliarea <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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   There are still a few photographs in the queue – some of them awaiting identification.<\/p>\n

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2017 July 30      Heather Proctor gives a probable identification of the mites on Ren Ferguson’s July 27 photograph of a long water scorpion. Scroll down to July 27 to see.      Today’s (July 30) issue of the Times-Colonist page D2 carries an item about a nature photographic contest organized by the SPCA.  […]<\/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-4688","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\/4688","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=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}