{"id":691,"date":"2015-06-16T04:13:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=691"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:05","slug":"june-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"June 15"},"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 June 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Yesterday (June 14) I went briefly to Eddy&#8217;s Self Storage at 1064 Stelly&#8217;s Cross Road, Brentwood Bay, and I saw several <strong>Field Crescents <\/strong>there.&nbsp; Thank you, Aziza Cooper, for drawing our attention to these in the June 11 posting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Annie Pang sends a picture of an <strong>Eight-spotted Skipper<\/strong> from Esquimalt Gorge Park, June 10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 486px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"486\" setheight=\"357\" originalheight=\"470\" originalwidth=\"640\" name=\"\" title=\"Libellula forensis Pang.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image557fa2790e2c9.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_image002.jpg\">Eight-spotted Skimmer <em>Libellula forensis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum sends pictures of three rather different and specialized moth cocoons<\/p>\n<p>from the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"769\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Nycteola pu.JPG\" height=\"377.32266666666663\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image557fa2790e432.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\"><em>Nycteola frigidana <\/em>(Lep.: Nolidae) &nbsp;Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"596\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Behrensia pu.JPG\" height=\"292.4373333333333\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image557fa2790e9a4.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_image006.jpg\"><em>Behrensia conchiformis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1021\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"net2.JPG\" height=\"500.97066666666666\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image557fa2790eea0.jpeg\">&nbsp;<\/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_image008.jpg\"><em>Schreckensteinia festaliella <\/em>(Lep.: Schreckensteiniidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/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_image010.jpg\"><em><br \/> <img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"872\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"net ad 2.JPG\" height=\"427.86133333333333\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image557fa2790f888.jpeg\"><br \/> Schreckensteinia festaliella <\/em>(Lep.: Schreckensteiniidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; This last insect was identified for me by Eric LaGasa. It seemed hardly larger than a House Fly.&nbsp; 4 mm from head to tail;&nbsp; 6 mm from head to wing tip.&nbsp; Larval foodplant <em>Rubus<\/em>. It is known as the <strong>Raspberry Skeletonizer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Eric LaGasa also kindly identified the tortricid below as the <strong>European Leaf Roller.<\/strong> <strong><em>Archips rosanus. <\/em><\/strong>It&#8217;s all in the costal fold!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"734\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"tort.JPG\" height=\"360.1493333333333\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image557fa2790fede.jpeg\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/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_image012.jpg\"><em>Archips rosanus <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Ken Vaughan writes:&nbsp; Off to the Beaver Lake Ponds again this morning, June 15. (What else do I do?) Not much new, except for sighting two male <strong>Common Whitetails<\/strong> <strong><em>Plathemis <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>lydia<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>,<\/em><\/strong> and eventually getting close to one to get a good photo. Also included is a reminder that dragonflies are carnivorous, in spite  of their <br \/> beauty: a teneral <strong>Western Pondhawk<\/strong> munching on a <strong>Tule Bluet<\/strong>. I watched it snatch it right out of the air.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"480\" originalwidth=\"724\" name=\"\" title=\"Common Whitetail.jpg\" height=\"390.36464088397787\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image557fa2791049b.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_image014.jpg\">Common Whitetail <em>Plathemis <\/em><em>lydia<\/em><em> <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"466\" originalwidth=\"854\" name=\"\" title=\"dragon and damsel.jpg\" height=\"321.28899297423885\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image557fa279106b9.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_image016.jpg\">Western Pondhawk <em>Erythemis collocata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tule Bluet <em>Enallagma carunculatum <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)<br \/> Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Val George sends a photograph of a <strong>Dun Skipper<\/strong> from the VNHS trip to Nanoose and Harewood Plains on June 14.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"399\" setheight=\"600\" style=\"width: 399px; height: 600px;\" originalheight=\"1524\" originalwidth=\"1015\" name=\"\" title=\"Dun Skipper.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image557fa27910867.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Dun Skipper <em>Euphyes vestris <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae) Val George<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 June 15 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Yesterday (June 14) I went briefly to Eddy&#8217;s Self Storage at 1064 Stelly&#8217;s Cross Road, Brentwood Bay, and I saw several Field Crescents there.&nbsp; Thank you, Aziza Cooper, for drawing our attention to these in the June 11 posting. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends a picture of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","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\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}