{"id":7120,"date":"2018-09-16T19:07:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T02:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7120"},"modified":"2018-09-16T19:11:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T02:11:25","slug":"september-16-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7120","title":{"rendered":"September 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">8<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 September 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Ron Flower sends a photograph of an insect from Goldstream.&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I have to say that I was completely floored by it &#8211; I could not even guess as to Order.&nbsp; &nbsp;So I tried Dr Rob Cannings, in the   hope that he might possibly be able to suggest the Order.&nbsp;&nbsp; Rob replied almost immediately, with Order, Family, Genus and Species!&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is a woodwasp, a hymenopteran in the Family Siricidae, related to the sawflies.&nbsp; Thank you, Rob!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Embi maybe.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"620\" width=\"544.8\" height=\"281.47999999999996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Embi-maybe.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Urocerus californicus <\/em>(Hym.: Siricidae)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Bryan Gates writes:&nbsp; At least seven of these <strong>  <em>Lophocampa maculata<\/em><\/strong> were on my alders at Saratoga Beach today, after a heavy rain through the night, Sept. 15-16, 2018. My notes show that I photographed one on the same alder on Sept. 8, 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image003.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"IMG_9019.jpeg\" originalwidth=\"640\" originalheight=\"396\" width=\"544.8\" height=\"337.09499999999997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_9019.jpeg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa maculata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Bryan Gates<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; A rainy day today, but during a brief sunny spell I saw a  <strong>Cabbage White <\/strong>from the window of my Saanich apartment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 2018 September 16 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Ron Flower sends a photograph of an insect from Goldstream.&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I have to say that I was completely floored by it &#8211; I could not even guess as to Order.&nbsp; &nbsp;So I tried Dr Rob Cannings, in the hope that he might possibly be able to [&hellip;]<\/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-7120","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\/7120","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=7120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}