{"id":5823,"date":"2018-04-19T19:57:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T02:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2018-04-21T09:37:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T16:37:06","slug":"april-19-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5823","title":{"rendered":"April 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2018 April 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>We start today\u2019s Invert Alert with a spectacular beetle, photographed by Bill Katz at Goldstream Heights.\u00a0 Thanks to Charlene Wood, who tells us that it is a <strong>net-winged beetle (Lycidae) &#8211; <\/strong>probably the northwest species <strong> <em>Punicealis hamata<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"lycid.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/lycid.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"475.17700453857793\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Net-winged beetle, probably <em>Punicealis hamata <\/em> (Col.: Lycidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Bill Katz<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Re Robin Robinson\u2019s report and photographs (see April 17) of <strong>Tissue Moths<\/strong> overwintering in a cave, see the Website\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/15272\">https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/15272<\/a><\/p>\n<p>where it mentions the habit of this moth of overwintering in caves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for hilltopping nymphalids in the late afternoons on the Mount Tolmie reservoir again.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I\u2019ve been up there once or twice recently with no luck, but Val George found and photographed a <strong>California Tortoiseshell<\/strong> there this afternoon.\u00a0 April is traditionally the best month for this species.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"California Tortoiseshell.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/California-Tortoiseshell.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"398.32666666666665\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Ansell writes:\u00a0 Today I saw one <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong> in our yard (Cordova Ridge) around lunch time.\u00a0 Our first this year.<\/p>\n<p>Also, this evening Gerry and I saw our first <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong> of the year by Beaver Lake.\u00a0 It was flying around looking quite content to stay there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 April 19 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 We start today\u2019s Invert Alert with a spectacular beetle, photographed by Bill Katz at Goldstream Heights.\u00a0 Thanks to Charlene Wood, who tells us that it is a net-winged beetle (Lycidae) &#8211; probably the northwest species Punicealis hamata. \u00a0 Net-winged beetle, probably Punicealis hamata (Col.: Lycidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Bill Katz &nbsp; Re Robin [&hellip;]<\/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-5823","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\/5823","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=5823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5845,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions\/5845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}