{"id":8528,"date":"2019-07-08T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T02:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8528"},"modified":"2019-07-12T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T20:36:57","slug":"july-8-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8528","title":{"rendered":"July 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2019 July 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 It seems that the recent rain brought out the slugs. Rebecca Reader-Lee writes: I went to Botanical Beach with my family on Friday, July 5th and, while we were there, I found a small (no more than 5cm long) slug crawling down a tree next to the path.\u00a0 Jeremy Gatten writes that he believes it is a Scarletback Taildropper Prophysaon vanattae.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Scarletback Taildropper Prophysaon vanattae <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)<\/p>\n

Rebecca Reader-Lee<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart sends photographs of a dragonfly and a bumblebee.\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for confirming the\u00a0 identity of the former as a male Blue-eyed Darner<\/strong>, and to Annie Pang for confirming the latter as a Western Bumblebee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Male Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor <\/em> (Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Western Bumblebee Bombus occidentalis <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths in Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n

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1 Autographa californica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Callizzia amorata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Eulithis xylina<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Homorthodes hanhami<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Nadata gibbosa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

1 Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Scopula quinquelinearia <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Aseptis binotata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Leucania dia <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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

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

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Aseptis binotata <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides <\/em>(Lep.: Drepanidae \u2013 Thyatirinae)<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Scopula quinquelinearia<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes that a Painted Lady<\/strong> was seen at home on Thursday July 4, along with the usual Lorquin\u2019s Admirals, Cabbage Whites <\/strong>and Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon also sends a photograph of a bee, kindly identified by Annie Pang as Bombus melanopygus<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Bombus melanopygus <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0\u00a0 This fly was at the top of Todd Hill in the Sooke Hills today, June 8:<\/p>\n

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Probably Peleteria malleola <\/em>(Dip.: Tachinidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a Red Admiral<\/strong> caterpillar found today on Lochside Trail just south of Lohbrunner\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes that there were three Painted Ladies, <\/strong>a Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>, and a Red Admiral<\/strong> on the MountTolmie reservoir this evening.\u00a0 I believe that this, and the caterpillar above, are the first Red Admirals reported to Invert Alert this year.<\/p>\n

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2019 July 8 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 It seems that the recent rain brought out the slugs. Rebecca Reader-Lee writes: I went to Botanical Beach with my family on Friday, July 5th and, while we were there, I found a small (no more than 5cm long) slug crawling down a tree next to the path.\u00a0 Jeremy Gatten […]<\/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-8528","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\/8528","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=8528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8600,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions\/8600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}