{"id":5155,"date":"2017-09-28T11:55:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T18:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2017-09-28T12:05:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T19:05:47","slug":"september-28-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5155","title":{"rendered":"September 28 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 September 28 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Jochen Moehr sends photographs from Metchosin of a Robber Fly<\/strong>, which he describes as being as aesthetically pleasing as an Apache attack helicopter.  Rob Cannings writes: This is a male Laphria asturina<\/em><\/strong> or L. fernaldi<\/em><\/strong>. These two are very difficult to tell apart and I’m not convinced yet that they are distinct species.<\/p>\n

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Robber fly Laphria asturina\/fernaldi <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae)   Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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Robber fly Laphria asturina\/fernaldi <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae)   Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum found a small (6 mm) beetle on the windshield of his car when he was parked near McIntyre reservoir yesterday.  Charlene Wood writes:  It looks like a Sitona <\/em><\/strong>sp. broad-nosed weevil (Curculionidae: Entiminae), which includes many non-native pests of clover, pea, etc. Looks most like a clover weevil, <\/strong>Sitona hispidulus<\/em><\/strong>, which is an introduced species from Eurasia, but there are a few other possible species.<\/p>\n

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Sitona <\/em>sp (probably hispidulus<\/em>) (Col.: Curculionidae – Entiminae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  The caterpillar of a Ni Moth<\/strong> shown on September 11 produced the moth shown below.  The moth emerged in the middle of last night, so I had to try to photograph it in artificial light when I was half asleep. Then I drove out to the Martindale area to release it there.  When I got back, a second moth had emerged, and I had to start all over again.  The second moth was from the caterpillar shown on August 28, 30, September 2,7,11.  I believe it is Zale lunata<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Ni Moth Trichoplusia ni <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae) Jeremy Tatum <\/em><\/p>\n

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Zale lunata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a Purplish Copper <\/strong>from Saanichton (Cordova) Spit.<\/p>\n

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Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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    Jeremy Tatum writes: At press time no word from yesterday’s observations at McIntyre reservoir, but I can tell you that there were several Cabbage Whites, <\/strong>one Orange Sulphur <\/strong>(deep orange, no problem with identity), several Painted Ladies, <\/strong>at least one (could be more) American Lady<\/strong>, a probable Purplish Copper<\/strong>, and several Autographa californica<\/em><\/strong>.  So it is well worth a visit there on this, the last day before the rains begin.  Also a report of a Red Admiral <\/strong>from Whiffin Spit.<\/p>\n

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2017 September 28 morning      Jochen Moehr sends photographs from Metchosin of a Robber Fly, which he describes as being as aesthetically pleasing as an Apache attack helicopter.  Rob Cannings writes: This is a male Laphria asturina or L. fernaldi. These two are very difficult to tell apart and I’m not convinced yet 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-5155","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\/5155","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=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}