{"id":8689,"date":"2019-07-18T19:21:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T02:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8689"},"modified":"2019-07-22T09:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:03:53","slug":"july-18-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8689","title":{"rendered":"July 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 July 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Hundreds of <strong>Essex Skippers<\/strong> in the fields inland from Island View Beach \u2013 but no Ringlets at the moment.\u00a0 All the Teasels at McIntyre Reservoir have been cut down.\u00a0 There will be no butterflies there this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Cheryl Hoyle sends some photographs taken on July 17 at the Gorge Park Community Gardens:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 568px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pastedImage-196.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Polyphylla crinita (<\/em>Col.: Scarabaeidae) Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 598px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pastedImage-197.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"372.75050167224083\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Syritta pipiens <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl\u00a0 found this spider in View Royal on July 11.\u00a0 Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for identifying it as a <strong>Lynx Spider, <\/strong><strong><em>Oxyopes scalaris<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em> the only member of the Oxyopidae so far recorded in British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 630px; 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\/07\/pastedImage-198.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"431.6\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lynx spider <em>Oxyopes scalaris <\/em>(Ara.: Oxyopidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rosemary Jorna sends some photographs\u00a0 taken on July 17 from the Kemp Lake area:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 600px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pastedImage-199.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"478.08\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Coccinella septempunctata <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 This next insect looks very like an ichneumonid indeed \u2013 although it is keeping its antennae rather still.\u00a0 The antennae of an ichneumonid are constantly in motion.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t deceive Rosemary, who recognized it as a beetle.\u00a0 Scott Gilmore identifies it as <strong><em>Necydalis laevicollis<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 573px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pastedImage-200.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Necydalis laevicollis <\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 614px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.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\/07\/pastedImage-201.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"419.4879478827362\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 July 18 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Hundreds of Essex Skippers in the fields inland from Island View Beach \u2013 but no Ringlets at the moment.\u00a0 All the Teasels at McIntyre Reservoir have been cut down.\u00a0 There will be no butterflies there this year. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle sends some photographs taken on July [&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-8689","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\/8689","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=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8725,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions\/8725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}