{"id":649,"date":"2015-06-08T19:34:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T02:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=649"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:05","slug":"june-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"June 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

2015 June 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    <\/strong>Ken Vaughan writes:    I thought I’d go to the Beaver Lake Ponds early on June 5 and see how things are on the west side of the pond.<\/p>\n

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Rhionaeschna californica <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n
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Blue Dasher Pachidiplax longipennis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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\"\"American Emerald Cordulia shurtleffii<\/em>  <\/em>(Odo.: Corduliidae)  Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n

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   Aziza Cooper writes:  I went to Beacon Hill Park and Government House on June 4. At Beacon Hill Park I saw a Mourning Cloak <\/strong>– the only butterfly I saw there.  There was also the beetle shown below.  Scott Gilmore writes that there are a number of very similar-looking beetles, so without photographs from various angles or having the beetle to look at, he can go no further than Subfamily.  It is in the Subfamily Lepturinae (flowering longhorns<\/strong>) of the Family Cerambycidae.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Flowering longhorn (Col.: Cerambycidae – Lepturinae)  Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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   Aziza continues: At 5:00 pm (June 4) there were four Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong><\/p>\n

and a Red Admiral<\/strong> <\/strong>at Government House.<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum reports that on June 6 there were several Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> and a Satyr Comma<\/strong> at UVic.  He also sends photographs of the caterpillars of Satyr Comma <\/strong>and Red Admiral<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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   We have had very few crustaceans in this site, and the picture below, taken by Rosemary Jorna at Skutz Falls on June 6, is certainly our first crayfish<\/strong>.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  My knowledge of crayfish is close to zero, so my attempt at identification is risky, but this well marked specimen would appear to be a good fit for Pacifastacus leniusculus<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Pacifastacus leniusculus <\/em>(Decapoda: Astacidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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   Gordon Hart writes:  I saw this tiny fly today shining in the sun. I think it is a Longlegged Fly, Dolichopodidae, but I don’t know what species.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I am sure there are experts out there in cyberspace who have devoted their lives to the study of the Dolichopodidae or who at least are more familiar with them than we are.  If any of you are reading this, please help us out with Gordon’s picture!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Long-legged fly (Dip.: Dolichopodidae)  Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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   Jeff Gaskin writes:  On June 6 around 6 p.m. June 6, there were two rather worn Red Admirals, 2 or 3 Painted Ladies<\/strong> and 2 Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> on or near the concrete reservoir on Mount. Tolmie. Also here were several Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> and Lorquin’s Admirals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna writes:  We visited all the gardens on Sooke’s Secret Garden Tour and there were Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> in every one but no Western Tigers.  A few whites moving fast, one blue and a Grey Hairstreak<\/strong>. Late in the afternoon we returned to my sister’s home on Kemp Lake Road, Otter Point.  There I photographed a Western<\/strong> Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>,  a Pale Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>(there have been 7 or 8 there for days)  and a Cabbage White<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Rosemary Jorna\"\"<\/p>\n

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Cabbage White Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   Val George writes:  Yesterday, June 7, I saw my first European (Essex) Skipper<\/strong> of the year at Uplands Park.  Also there was a Painted Lady<\/strong> and a Milbert’s Tortoiseshell.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>The June 7 Butterfly Walk proved to be quite an adventure along rough logging roads towards Cowichan River, but there were a few interesting finds.  Thus we found a caterpillar of a Western Brown Elfin<\/strong> <\/em>on a Salal flower.  Aziza Cooper photographed a spider and an unfortunate butterfly (shown below) at the end of Hillcrest Road.  And she and Rick Schortinghuis saw a Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong> along the forest road at Chemainus Park.<\/p>\n

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Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae) and Papilio eurymedon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)<\/p>\n

Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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   Aziza also sends a photograph of a geometrid moth from Mount Cokely on June 6.<\/div>\n

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\"\"Rheumaptera hastata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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   More photographs to come tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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2015 June 8       Ken Vaughan writes:    I thought I’d go to the Beaver Lake Ponds early on June 5 and see how things are on the west side of the pond.   Rhionaeschna californica (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Ken Vaughan     Blue Dasher Pachidiplax longipennis (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Ken Vaughan     American Emerald […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","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\/649","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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}