{"id":816,"date":"2015-05-25T03:17:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T10:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=816"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:06","slug":"may-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"May 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

2015 May 24<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Aziza Cooper writes:   As I was coming back from the west coast on Thursday May 21 I stopped at the Taylor River flats and found this large orange moth. <\/p>\n

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\"\"Nadata gibbosa <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontidae)  Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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   Rosemary Jorna sends a nice bunch of lycaenid photographs from the Sooke area, May 23.  She also reports seeing five Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> together mud-puddling near Ripple Rock.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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\"\"Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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\"\"Western Pine Elfin Incisalia eryphon <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Western Pine Elfin Incisalia eryphon <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae) Rosemary Jorna
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   Scott Gilmore sends some spectacular photographs from Upper Lantzville, all nicely identified for us!<\/p>\n

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   Here is a Four Spotted Sap Beetle that decided to walk across our picnic table as we had dinner outside. <\/p>\n

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Glischrochilus quadrignatus <\/em>(Col.: Nitidulidae) Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n

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My son and I found this fly as we were out walking:<\/p>\n

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\"\"Epalpus signifer <\/em>(Dip.: Tachinidae)  Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n

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Epalpus signifer <\/em>(Dip.: Tachinidae)  Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n

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[Jeremy Tatum remarks:  I once read that many tachinids can be recognized by their having bristly abdomens.  I see what they meant!]<\/p>\n

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This beetle was found sitting on a young Red Alder Leaf.<\/p>\n

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Agrilus<\/em> (perhaps burkei<\/em>) (Col.: Buprestidae)  Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n

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   Scott continues:  Most evenings near dusk there are reasonable numbers of beetles that fly around. My son and I like to see what we can find in our backyard. It is often the really tiny things we find that I find the most interesting.  The next two are about 2 mm long.  Thanks to Charlene Wood for the identification of Enicmus fictus<\/em><\/strong>, and Donald Chandler for the identification of Sonoma<\/em><\/strong> sp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Enicmus fictus<\/em> (Col.: Latritiidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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\"\"Sonoma<\/em> <\/em>sp. (Col.: Staphylinidae) Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n

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