{"id":8327,"date":"2019-06-24T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T18:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8327"},"modified":"2019-06-30T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T02:49:14","slug":"june-24-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8327","title":{"rendered":"June 24 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 June 24 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>We start this morning with two dragonflies \u2013 a <strong>Common Whitetail<\/strong> from Gorge Park, June 22, and a <strong>Western Pondhawk<\/strong> from Beaver Lake, June 23.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-111.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"358.1769230769231\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Common Whitetail <em>Plathemis lydia <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-112.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"397.44230769230774\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Pondhawk <em>Erythemis collocata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Now we go to three moths, from three Families, not Noctuidae or Geometridae!\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><em>Nadata gibbosa<\/em><\/strong> from Metchosin,\u00a0 <strong><em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Malacosoma californicum<\/em><\/strong> from Saanich, all June 23.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-113.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"315.08076923076925\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rough Prominent <em>Nadata gibbosa <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-114.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"473.1\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-115.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Male <em>Malacosoma californicum <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Lastly, a gigantic (three inches) insect found on Mount Cokely by Mike Yip, June 22.\u00a0\u00a0 You\u2019d think an insect of this size would be easy to identify, but there are several similar species, and we even had to resort to looking at he details of the wing venation to be sure.\u00a0 Mike correctly identified it as a species of <strong>fishfly\u00b8 <\/strong>and Jeremy Tatum then starting looking into a couple of wrong genera.\u00a0 We are grateful to Claudia Copley for putting us on to <strong><em>Dysmicohermes disjunctus<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 440px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-116.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fishfly <em>Dysmicohermes disjunctus <\/em>(Meg.: Corydalidae) MikeYip<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-117.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"398.40000000000003\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fishfly <em>Dysmicohermes disjunctus <\/em>(Meg.: Corydalidae) MikeYip<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 458px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image016.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pastedImage-118.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fishfly <em>Dysmicohermes disjunctus <\/em>(Meg.: Corydalidae) MikeYip<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 June 24 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 We start this morning with two dragonflies \u2013 a Common Whitetail from Gorge Park, June 22, and a Western Pondhawk from Beaver Lake, June 23. Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia (Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata (Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0 Now we go to three moths, [&hellip;]<\/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-8327","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\/8327","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=8327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8428,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions\/8428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}