{"id":769,"date":"2015-06-29T23:35:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T06:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=769"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:04","slug":"june-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"June 29"},"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 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Sorry no posting yesterday &#8211; not enough business!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes: On Sunday morning, June 28, while still in the sunshine there was a <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> in the southwest corner of Swan Lake . It was near a patch of nettles which was near the bridge that crosses Swan Creek not far from the highway.&nbsp; [Jeremy Tatum comments:&nbsp; Yes, there have been caterpillars in that nettle patch!]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Rob Gowan reports an interesting moth from the summit of Mount Washington from the June 20 trip.&nbsp; It is <strong><em>Anarta nigrolunata<\/em><\/strong>, which is a moth that occurs in the alpine meadows of high mountains.&nbsp; We are struggling with technical computer difficulties, but we&#8217;ll try and show Rob&#8217;s fine photograph of it if we can just tame these computers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Scott Gilmore writes from Upper Lantzville:&nbsp; On Sunday (June 28) we found some interesting longhorn beetles and a couple of flies.&nbsp; I can name the beetles as least to genus, and John H Ascher has identified the flies (snipe flies &#8211; Rhagionidae) to genus.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"897\" originalwidth=\"1009\" name=\"\" title=\"P1250749small.jpg\" height=\"523.4426164519326\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image5591d642264b9.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\"><em>Phymatodes <\/em>sp. (Col.: Cerambycidae) Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1012\" originalwidth=\"1012\" name=\"\" title=\"P1250766small.jpg\" height=\"588.8\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image5591d64226b50.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>Xestoleptura crassicornis <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae) Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1140\" originalwidth=\"1137\" name=\"\" title=\"P1250769small.jpg\" height=\"590.3535620052769\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image5591d642273d7.jpeg\"><br \/> <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Necydalis <\/em>sp. (Col.: Cerambycidae)&nbsp; Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott describes this as a wasp mimic.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum comments: Yes I have seen this one or a congener myself, and it is a quite astonishing ichneumonid (a sort of wasp in the broad sense) mimic.&nbsp; The one thing that gives it away is that it is fairly lethargic  &#8211; whereas an icheumonid is constantly on the move and its antennae are constantly in motion. Other than that, the resemblance of this beetle to an icheumonid is truly astonishing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"812\" originalwidth=\"754\" name=\"\" title=\"P1250786small.jpg\" height=\"634.0923076923076\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image5591d64227cdd.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_image008.jpg\">Snipe fly <em>Chrysopilus <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Rhagionidae) Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"900\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"P1250790small.jpg\" height=\"441.59999999999997\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image5591d642282c9.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Snipe fly&nbsp; <em>Rhagio <\/em>sp. (Dip.: &nbsp;Rhagionidae)&nbsp; Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Two micro moths, photographed recently by Bill Katz and Jeremy Tatum, have recently been indentified for us by Eric LaGasa:<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1256\" originalwidth=\"1352\" name=\"\" title=\"tortricid Katz.JPG\" height=\"546.9917159763313\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image5591d64228d1d.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_image012.jpg\"><em>Pandemis cerasana <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Bill Katz<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"730\" originalwidth=\"1052\" name=\"\" title=\"Cramb3.JPG\" height=\"408.57794676806077\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image5591d6422a9da.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\"><em>Herpetogramma pertextalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 June 29 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Sorry no posting yesterday &#8211; not enough business! &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeff Gaskin writes: On Sunday morning, June 28, while still in the sunshine there was a Red Admiral in the southwest corner of Swan Lake . 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