{"id":839,"date":"2015-05-28T03:15:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T10:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=839"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:06","slug":"may-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"May 27"},"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 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes (May 26): I stayed around the yard today and managed to catch up with a few insects.&nbsp; The <em>Ceanothus <\/em>(California Lilac) is in full bloom and was attracting several kinds of bees and three <strong>Cedar Hairstreaks<\/strong> with a couple of <strong>Spring Azures<\/strong>. I counted eight <strong>Pale Swallowtails<\/strong> at the same time on the Rhododendrons , a new yard record I think. I have attached another picture of a <strong>Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong>, plus a small brown <strong>pug <\/strong>on a squash leaf; and a small <strong>beetle<\/strong> with bright red-pink stripes on the pronotum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying the beetle to genus as <strong><em>Ellychnia<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>This is in the firefly family, but only the larvae bioluminesce.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes that his best guess for the pug is <strong><em>Eupithecia annulata <\/em><\/strong>&#8211; but he can&#8217;t be certain.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"682\" originalwidth=\"1024\" name=\"\" title=\"Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri (Lep.- Lycaenidae).jpg\" height=\"392.15\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5566884d40025.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Cedar Hairstreak <em>Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"641\" originalwidth=\"896\" name=\"\" title=\"Ellychnia.jpg\" height=\"421.2285714285714\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5566884d4099e.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>Ellychnia <\/em>sp.: (Col.: Lampyridae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"768\" originalwidth=\"1024\" name=\"\" title=\"pug Gordon.jpg\" height=\"441.59999999999997\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5566884d40cf2.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_image006.jpg\"><em>Eupithecia <\/em>sp. (perhaps <em>annulata<\/em>) (Lep.: Geometridae) Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore sends photos of two colour varieties of a <strong>cerambycid <\/strong> &nbsp;beetle &#8211; the common black-bodied form:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"857\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"cerambycid black.jpg\" height=\"420.5013333333333\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5566884d4186b.jpeg\"><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pidonia scripta <\/em>(col.: Cerambycidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and a less-common form with a brown body:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1201\" originalwidth=\"1181\" name=\"\" title=\"cerambycid brown.jpg\" height=\"598.7712108382726\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5566884d42040.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_image010.jpg\"><em>Pidonia scripta <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae) Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; He also sends photographs of a very tiny bug, the <strong>Mountain Leafhopper<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"455\" setheight=\"246\" style=\"width: 455px; height: 246px;\" originalheight=\"345\" originalwidth=\"637\" name=\"\" title=\"Leafhopper dorsal.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5566884d42768.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Colladonus montanus <\/em>(Hem.: Cicadellidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"0\" setheight=\"19\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image014.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 440px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"440\" setheight=\"248\" originalheight=\"337\" originalwidth=\"597\" name=\"\" title=\"Leafhopper laterall.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5566884d429fb.jpeg\"><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Colladonus montanus <\/em>(Hem.: Cicadellidae) 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; <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 May 27 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes (May 26): I stayed around the yard today and managed to catch up with a few insects.&nbsp; The Ceanothus (California Lilac) is in full bloom and was attracting several kinds of bees and three Cedar Hairstreaks with a couple of Spring Azures. 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