{"id":6756,"date":"2018-07-28T18:41:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T01:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6756"},"modified":"2018-08-02T16:21:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T23:21:59","slug":"july-28-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6756","title":{"rendered":"July 28"},"content":{"rendered":"
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July 28<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Cheryl Hoyle sends a picture of a grasshopper from View Royal, July 26.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I know little about grasshoppers, but I\u2019m fairly sure that this is Melanoplus femurrubrum<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Melanoplus femurrubrum <\/em>(Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Today I saw an Anise Swallowtail<\/strong> nectaring on the teasels at McIntyre Reservoir, Central Saanich.\u00a0\u00a0 Most of the large teasels at the south end of the reservoir have finished flowering.\u00a0 However, the smaller teasels at the north end of the reservoir are now in full flower and should be attractive to butterflies.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 I walked from Island View Beach parking lot to Cordova (Saanichton) Spit this afternoon.\u00a0 In the grassy fields just inland from the beach were a number of skippers <\/strong>\u2013 both Woodland <\/strong>and Essex<\/strong>.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure which were the more numerous of the two, but I was surprised to see so many Essex this late in the season.\u00a0 At the start of Cordova Spit were lots of Woodland Skippers <\/strong>and one Branded Skipper <\/strong>nectaring on the Gumweed.\u00a0 This was at the side of the gravel trail, just where we saw them last year.\u00a0 [In this site I am treating the so-called \u201cWestern\u201d Branded Skipper as a race or subspecies of Hesperia comma<\/em>, until the caterpillars are found to see just how different the two forms are.]\u00a0\u00a0 Also seen were a Purplish Copper <\/strong>on the way to Cordova Spit, and a \u201cRinglet\u201d = Large Heath<\/strong> on the spit.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Doug Cary writes: \u00a0I’m trying to identify a caterpillar observed in Uplands Park today and hope you can assist. We came across six of these in different locations during a walk this morning. They were approximately 5 cm in length and all were on the ground.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum replies:\u00a0 It is the Sheep Moth.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>They have finished feeding (on Ocean Spray or Snowberry) and are searching for somewhere to pupate.\u00a0 These caterpillars can give you a rash if handled.<\/p>\n

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Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)\u00a0 Doug Carey<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Devon Parker writes:\u00a0\u00a0 On July 22 I observed 15+ Western Bumblebees<\/strong> at Butchart Gardens in the perennial border next to the concert lawn. Most of them were nectaring on the white and purple Veronica. On July 28 I observed 3 Western Bumblebees <\/strong>at Royal Roads in the walled Garden nectaring on Globe Thistle and Goldenrod.<\/p>\n

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Western Bumblebee Bombus occidentalis <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Devon Parker<\/p>\n

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July 28 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle sends a picture of a grasshopper from View Royal, July 26.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I know little about grasshoppers, but I\u2019m fairly sure that this is Melanoplus femurrubrum. Melanoplus femurrubrum (Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle   \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Today I saw an Anise Swallowtail nectaring on the teasels […]<\/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-6756","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\/6756","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=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}