{"id":6132,"date":"2018-05-20T11:08:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T18:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2018-05-20T16:37:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T23:37:41","slug":"may-20-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6132","title":{"rendered":"May 20 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 20 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>From Tuesday until Saturday inclusive this week I shall be heavily involved with the Canadian Astronomical Society meeting in Victoria.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Consequently there may be some delays in posting Invert Alert contributions.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>By all means continue to submit your observations and photographs, though it would be helpful if photographers would, during these few days, concentrate their attention on the less frequently photographed species.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Thank you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum sends three photographs all from Saanich yesterday.\u00a0 Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying the beetle.\u00a0\u00a0 The white moth is the adult of the well-known <strong>Yellow Woolly Bear <\/strong>caterpillar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"black beetle.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/black-beetle.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"616.9644405897658\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stag beetle\u00a0 <em>Platycerus oregonensis <\/em>(Col,: Lucanidae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"O hibisci.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/O-hibisci-1.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"378.40399999999994\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Orthosia hibisci <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"S virginica.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/S-virginica.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"419.40599999999995\" name=\"null\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Spilosoma virginica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Andrew Simon together with Scott and Sable Gilmore conducted a mini bioblitz in Bluffs Park, Galiano Island, BC, Saturday May 19, 2018.\u00a0 They came across this geometrid caterpillar:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"geom.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/geom.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"337.402\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Protoboarmia porcelaria<\/em>\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Andrew Simon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang sends photographs of a <strong>Cabbage White <\/strong>butterfly\u00b8 and a <strong>Narcissus Bulb Fly.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"P1350892 snd rev.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/P1350892-snd-rev.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"523.146\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Cabbage White <em>Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Merodon.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Merodon.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"547.599\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Narcissus Bulb Fly <em>Merodon equestris<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; 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