{"id":800,"date":"2015-05-22T23:35:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T06:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=800"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:06","slug":"may-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"May 22"},"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 May 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart sends some pictures from the power lines that run parallel to Prospect Lake Road, on May 21.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"620\" originalwidth=\"823\" name=\"\" title=\"Metarrhanthis.jpg\" height=\"443.56743620899147\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555fbd2753e36.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>Metarrhanthis duaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"683\" originalwidth=\"1024\" name=\"\" title=\"Adela(1).jpg\" height=\"392.72499999999997\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555fbd27544f5.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>Adela septentrionella<\/em> (Lep.: Incurvariidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"596\" originalwidth=\"844\" name=\"\" title=\"Four-spotted.jpg\" height=\"415.7876777251185\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555fbd2754df9.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_image006.jpg\">Four-spotted Skimmer <em>Libellula quadrimaculata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"511\" originalwidth=\"527\" name=\"\" title=\"Swift Forktail (Ischnura erratica).jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555fbd2755466.jpeg\"> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Swift Forktail <em>Ischnura erratica <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae) Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Today, May 22, Gordon writes that his wife picked dozens of beetles off their <em>Coreopsis<\/em> plants.&nbsp; He noted that he and Ann Nightingale has seen similar beetles on May at Panama Flats, where they feed on the related <em>Bidens<\/em>.&nbsp; Appropriately they are known in horticultural circles as the <strong> Coreopsis Beetle <\/strong><strong><em>Calligrapha californica<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"534\" originalwidth=\"798\" name=\"\" title=\"Calligrapha1.jpg\" height=\"394.00902255639096\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555fbd27556d1.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Coreopsis Beetle <em>Calligrapha californica <\/em> (Col.: Chrysomelidae) Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"682\" originalwidth=\"1024\" name=\"\" title=\"Calligrapha2.jpg\" height=\"392.15\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555fbd27559bf.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\">Coreopsis Beetle <em>Calligrapha californica <\/em>(Col.: Chrysomelidae) Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; The tiny caterpillar burrowing its way into the base of a <em>Gaultheria <\/em>(Salal) flower below is a first instar caterpillar, just out of its egg, of the <strong>Western Brown Elfin<\/strong>.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t help noticing it while I was strolling along the Munn Road powerline yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"697\" originalwidth=\"934\" name=\"\" title=\"Brown Elfin.JPG\" height=\"439.3935760171306\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image555fbd2755dbe.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\">Western Brown Elfin <em>Incisalia iroides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 May 22 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart sends some pictures from the power lines that run parallel to Prospect Lake Road, on May 21. &nbsp; Metarrhanthis duaria (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart &nbsp; Adela septentrionella (Lep.: Incurvariidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart &nbsp; Four-spotted Skimmer Libellula quadrimaculata (Odo.: Libellulidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart Swift Forktail Ischnura erratica (Odo.: Coenagrionidae) Gordon Hart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","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\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}