{"id":6063,"date":"2018-05-14T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T23:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6063"},"modified":"2018-05-14T16:21:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T23:21:47","slug":"may-14-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6063","title":{"rendered":"May 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna sends a picture of a  <strong>Western Blood-red Lady Beetle<\/strong> from Kemp Lake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 582px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"ladybird.jpg\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"882\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"522.732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ladybird.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Blood-red Lady Beetle <em>Cycloneda polita  <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jochen M\u00f6hr&nbsp; sends a picture of a <strong>Silver-spotted Tiger Moth<\/strong> caterpillar from Metchosin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"argentata.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"940\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"557.1066666666667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/argentata-1.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa argentata  <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Aziza Cooper writes: On May 13, I saw a <strong>Grey Hairstreak<\/strong> at Mount Tolmie summit. At 9am, I saw it on the lawn area between the summit rock and the reservoir. No photo. She sends photographs of two damselflies   from Mcintyre Reservoir at 12:30 pm.&nbsp; The first is a <strong>Pacific Forktail.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;  <\/strong>Rob Cannings tells us that the second is a <strong>Bluet<\/strong>, but it is a young individual with the colours hardly developed, so it is difficult to tell the exact species with confidence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"G Damselfly blue 1a.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"910\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"539.3266666666667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/G-Damselfly-blue-1a.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pacific Forktail <em>Ischnura cervula <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"bluet.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"900\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"533.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bluet.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bluet <em>Enallagma <\/em>sp.<em> <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum found the beetle below in Latoria Creek Park.&nbsp; Scott Gilmore tells us that it is a &#8220;good one&#8221;, and is the  <strong>Festive Click Beetle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Click.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"845\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"500.80333333333334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Click.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Festive Click Beetle <em>Selatosomus festivus <\/em>  (Col.: Elateridae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 14 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna sends a picture of a Western Blood-red Lady Beetle from Kemp Lake. &nbsp; Western Blood-red Lady Beetle Cycloneda polita (Col.: Coccinellidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna &nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr&nbsp; sends a picture of a Silver-spotted Tiger Moth caterpillar from Metchosin. &nbsp; Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Jochen [&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-6063","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\/6063","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=6063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}