{"id":863,"date":"2015-06-02T00:49:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T07:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=863"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:06","slug":"june-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"June 1"},"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 June 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Annie Pang sends photographs of a <strong>European Paper Wasp <\/strong>and a <strong>crane fly<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>from<strong> <\/strong> Gorge Park, May 31.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; The wasp is a native of continental Europe &#8211; I believe it doesn&#8217;t occur in the British Isles, but I&#8217;d welcome confirmation of this.&nbsp; Although I can&#8217;t be sure (and we would welcome an expert opinion) the crane fly is  probably also a European (including British) insect, <strong><em>Tipula paludosa<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp; In Britain it is called &#8220;daddy long-legs&#8221; &#8211; a name that is generally used here for harvestmen or some types of spider.&nbsp; The larvae of crane flies are called leatherjackets. <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"477\" originalwidth=\"626\" name=\"\" title=\"Polistes3.jpg\" height=\"448.6543130990415\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image556cfdadc468f.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;European Paper Wasp <em>Polistes dominula <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae) Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"493\" originalwidth=\"640\" name=\"\" title=\"Polistes2.jpg\" height=\"453.55999999999995\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image556cfdadc42e5.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\">European Paper Wasp <em>Polistes dominula <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae) Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&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\"><em><br \/> <img decoding=\"async\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"640\" originalwidth=\"532\" name=\"\" title=\"Tipula2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image556cfdadc4a9a.jpeg\"><br \/> Tipula <\/em>sp. probably <em>paludosa <\/em>(Dip.: Tipulidae)&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Ken Vaughan writes:&nbsp; I had a chance to wade around a bit at the Beaver Lake Retriever <br \/> Ponds on Saturday May 30. Activity for odes is picking up. The first picture, although not a great one, is of an <strong>American Emerald<\/strong> (<strong><em>Cordulia shurtleffii<\/em><\/strong>). Second sighting for me, first picture. The second is of a teneral female <strong>Blue Dasher<\/strong> (<strong><em>Pachydiplax longipennis<\/em><\/strong>). &nbsp;The third is a male <strong>Tule Bluet<\/strong> (<strong><em>Enallagma carunculatum<\/em><\/strong>).&nbsp; Lots of activity with many <strong>Four-spotted Skimmers, Blue-eyed Darners <\/strong>and <strong>Cardinal Meadowhawks <\/strong>present.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"432\" originalwidth=\"507\" name=\"\" title=\"Cordulia shurtleffii.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image556cfdadc4dd4.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_image008.jpg\">American Emerald <em>Cordulia shurtleffii <\/em>(Odo.: Corduliidae) Ken Vaughan<\/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=\"480\" originalwidth=\"608\" name=\"\" title=\"Pachydiplax.jpg\" height=\"464.84210526315786\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image556cfdadc4f6c.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\">Blue Dasher <em>Pachydiplax longipennis <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae) Ken Vaughan<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"480\" originalwidth=\"658\" name=\"\" title=\"Tule Bluet.jpg\" height=\"429.5197568389057\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image556cfdadc51fd.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_image012.jpg\">Tule Bluet <em>Enallagma carunculatum <\/em>(Odo.: Coenagrionidae) Ken Vaughan<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum shows two micro moths.&nbsp; The first was sitting on my bedroom window a few nights ago. It was identified for me by Eric LaGasa as the <strong>Skunk Moth.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>The caterpillar has been recorded as feeding on fungi.<strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>Authors differ a little as to which Family to place it in, and so I am playing safe and listing it under its Superfamily <\/p>\n<p>(-oidea).&nbsp; I reared the second from <em>Rosa<\/em><em> nutkana<\/em>.&nbsp; It is one of several look-alike tortricids (<em>Choristoneura<\/em>,<em> Pandemis<\/em>, etc.) which are best told apart from the costal fold in the male.&nbsp; This one is without costal fold  and therefore a female and therefore probably best left unidentified.<\/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_image014.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"877\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Skunk moth.JPG\" height=\"430.31466666666665\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image556cfdadc5463.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Skunk Moth <em>Polix coloradella <\/em>(Lep.: Gelechioidea)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"800\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Rosa.JPG\" height=\"392.5333333333333\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image556cfdadc6030.jpeg\"><br \/> Tortricid moth (Lep.: Tortricicae) &nbsp;Jeremy Tatum <\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 June 1 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends photographs of a European Paper Wasp and a crane fly, from Gorge Park, May 31.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; The wasp is a native of continental Europe &#8211; I believe it doesn&#8217;t occur in the British Isles, but I&#8217;d welcome confirmation of this.&nbsp; Although I can&#8217;t be sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","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\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}