{"id":631,"date":"2015-07-22T02:09:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T09:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=631"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:03","slug":"july-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"July 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 July 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna writes: This handsome beetle was investigating the wet sand at the edge of the Sooke River at the Potholes this afternoon (July 20).&nbsp; Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying it for us as <strong><em>Leptura obliterata<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"900\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"ceramb.JPG\" height=\"447\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image55aefb6adf06f.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\"><em>Leptura obliterata <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore writes:&nbsp; My son found a nifty fruitfly at a window. I am not entirely sure but I think it is a <strong>Rosehip Fly <\/strong><strong><em>Rhagoletis basiola<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>[Jeremy Tatum responds: Well, I&#8217;m sure enough of it to label it as such!]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"551\" setheight=\"560\" style=\"width: 551px; height: 560px;\" originalheight=\"1219\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Rose Hip.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image55aefb6adfdf0.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">Rose Hip Fly <em>Rhagoletis basiola <\/em>(Dip.: Tephritidae)&nbsp; Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Julie Michaux writes:&nbsp; Our 3-year-old grandson picked up this expired specimen from the floor in the garage. We would all like to know its name.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum responds: Well! That&#8217;s quite a challenge, for it&#8217;s well past its Best-Before Date.&nbsp; It&#8217;s obviously  a geometrine, but it&#8217;s not the usual one, the European Common Emerald.&nbsp; It is one of our natives.&nbsp; I cannot be completely sure, but I think it&#8217;s most likely <strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Nemoria glaucomarginaria.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 415px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"415\" setheight=\"370\" originalheight=\"1071\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Nemoria.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image55aefb6ae05ad.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">Probably <em>Nemoria glaucomarginaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Julie Michaux<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 July 21 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna writes: This handsome beetle was investigating the wet sand at the edge of the Sooke River at the Potholes this afternoon (July 20).&nbsp; Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying it for us as Leptura obliterata. &nbsp; Leptura obliterata (Col.: Cerambycidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore writes:&nbsp; My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}