{"id":7775,"date":"2019-04-29T19:34:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T02:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7775"},"modified":"2019-04-29T19:36:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T02:36:25","slug":"april-29-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7775","title":{"rendered":"April 29 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2019 April 29 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  <\/strong>  <\/strong> <\/strong>Mike Yip writes from Nanoose:  Great day for golf at Fairwinds (April 25), and it was even more enjoyable to find a Western Pine Elfin<\/strong> basking on the 3rd green and a Grey Hairstreak<\/strong> on the 18th green. After golf I checked Cross Road and found an obliging Western Spring Azure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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   And here\u2019s an upperside (from the broad grey outer margin, a female) from Ken Vaughan:<\/p>\n

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Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes that there was a California Tortoiseshell <\/strong>on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 3:45 on the afternoon of April 25.<\/p>\n

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   Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moth counts in Metchosin on the mornings of April 25, 26 and 27 were<\/p>\n

                     25                                                 26                                                    27<\/p>\n

6<\/strong> Hydriomena manzanita <\/em> <\/strong>      <\/em><\/strong>4<\/strong> Melanolophia imitata<\/em><\/strong>            <\/em><\/strong>2<\/strong> <\/em>Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

5<\/strong> Venusia obsoleta<\/em><\/strong>\/<\/strong>pearsalli<\/em><\/strong>  <\/em><\/strong>4<\/strong> Venusia obsoleta<\/em><\/strong>\/<\/strong>pearsalli<\/em><\/strong>  <\/em><\/strong>and one each of:<\/p>\n

2 <\/strong>Behrensia conchiformis<\/em><\/strong>         <\/em><\/strong>and one each of:                        Behrensia conchiformis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

and one each of:                        Anticlea vasiliata<\/em><\/strong>                       <\/em><\/strong>Cladara limitaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cladara limitaria<\/em><\/strong>                       <\/em><\/strong>Behrensia conchiformis<\/em><\/strong>            <\/em><\/strong>Drepanuilatrix monicaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Melanolophia imitata<\/em><\/strong>              <\/em><\/strong>Cladara limitaria<\/em><\/strong>                       <\/em><\/strong>Egira crucialis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Egira simplex<\/em><\/strong>\/<\/strong>crucialis<\/em><\/strong>             <\/em><\/strong>Eupithecia ravocostaliata\/nevadata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Feralia comstocki<\/em><\/strong>\/<\/strong>deceptiva<\/em><\/strong>   <\/em><\/strong>Eupithecia <\/em><\/strong>sp.<\/strong>                           <\/strong>Feralia comstocki.deceptiva<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Phyllodesma americana<\/em><\/strong>                                                               <\/em><\/strong>Perizoma curvilinea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

                                                                     <\/strong>                                      <\/strong>Anticlea vasiliata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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   Photographs of a few of them:<\/p>\n

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Behrensia conchiformis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Feralia <\/em>(probably comstocki<\/em>) (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Cladara limitaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Phyllodesma americana <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Perizoma curvilinea <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Egira crucialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I photographed a weevil, on Rumex crispus<\/em> at Rithet\u2019s Bog on April 24.  Identification proved a bit of a problem and it needed a combined effort from three beetle enthusiasts.  Charlene Woods identified it as a species of Lixus<\/em>, but she pointed out that there were only two species of Lixus<\/em> on the British Columbia list, and Scott Gilmore didn\u2019t think it was either of these.  Finally Bob Anderson identified it as Lixus concavus<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 a widespread species in North America, but which somehow had managed to avoid being on the British Columbia list.  An exciting experience, and thanks to the three people who went to a lot of trouble to identify it.<\/p>\n

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Lixus concavus<\/em>  (Col.: Curculionidae)   Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   Here\u2019s a photograph of a bee fly <\/strong>Bombyliu major<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>from Ken Vaughan in the Highlands:<\/p>\n

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Bee fly Bombylius major <\/em>(Dip.: Bombyliidae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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   Syrphine flies and chrysomelid beetles are notoriously difficult to identify from photographs, and Ken has a photograph of one of each from the Highlands.  We are very grateful to Jeff Skevington (flies) and Scott Gilmore (beetles) for giving it their best shot.<\/p>\n

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    First, the fly.  Dr Skevington writes:   It looks like Eupeodes<\/em> but I hesitate to put even generic identifications on syrphines with only one view.<\/p>\n

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Possibly Eupeodes<\/em>  (Dip.: Syrphidae \u2013 Syrphinae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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   Now the beetle.  Scott Gilmore writes:  Leaf beetles are hard even with a specimen in hand. This appears to be from the tribe Alticini and I think (guess?) genus Altica<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Possibly Altica <\/em>(Col.: Chrysomelidae \u2013 Alticini)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s line-up in Metchosin for the morning of April 30:<\/p>\n

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This morning’s lineup: <\/p>\n

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5 Eupitheciae<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

4 Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Coryphista meadii<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Cladara limitaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Drepanulatrix monicaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Egira crucialis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Egira curialis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Egira simplex<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Egira rubrica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Perizoma curvilinea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Orthosia transparens<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photographs of a few of them:<\/p>\n

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Egira curialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Egira crucialis\/simplex <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Egira crucialis\/simplex <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Perizoma curvilinea <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Triphosa haesitata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2019 April 29 afternoon        Mike Yip writes from Nanoose:  Great day for golf at Fairwinds (April 25), and it was even more enjoyable to find a Western Pine Elfin basking on the 3rd green and a Grey Hairstreak on the 18th green. After golf I checked Cross Road and found an obliging Western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7775","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\/7775","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=7775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}