{"id":8700,"date":"2019-07-20T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8700"},"modified":"2019-07-20T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T20:28:12","slug":"july-20-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8700","title":{"rendered":"July 20"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Layla Munger sends some pictures from Oak Bay. <\/p>\n

The first shows a Sand Wasp<\/strong>.  That one was easy, and I was going to ignore the tiny fly at the bottom – until Layla managed to identlfy it!<\/p>\n

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Sand wasp Bembix americana <\/em>(Hym.: Crabronidae)<\/p>\n

Frit fly Thaumatomyia glabra<\/em> (Dip.: Chloropidae)<\/p>\n

Layla Munger<\/p>\n

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Crab spider Misumena vatia <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)  Layla Munga<\/p>\n

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Next is a Wool Carder Bee\u00b8 <\/strong>in the act of carding wool from a woolly leaf with which to line its nest,<\/p>\n

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Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum <\/em>(Hym.: Megachilidae)  Layla Munger<\/p>\n

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Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum <\/em>(Hym.: Megachilidae)  Layla Munger<\/p>\n

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Annie Pang sends a photograph of a Yellow-fronted Bumblebee.<\/strong>  <\/strong>[The “front” in such animal names as Yellow-fronted Bumblebee and White-fronted Goose, etc., refers to the “frons – frontis<\/em>” or forehead<\/span>.]<\/p>\n

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Bombus flavifrons <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)  Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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

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2 Callizia amorata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

One each  of:<\/p>\n

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

Hydriomena marinata <\/em><\/strong>\/<\/strong>californiata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lophocampa argentata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Pero mizon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pyrausta perrubralis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Schizura ipomoeae<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hesperumia latipennis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hydriomena marinata<\/em>\/californiata <\/em> (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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

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Schizura ipomoeae <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontodae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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

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That will have to be enough for today!<\/p>\n

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  Layla Munger sends some pictures from Oak Bay. The first shows a Sand Wasp.  That one was easy, and I was going to ignore the tiny fly at the bottom – until Layla managed to identlfy it!   Sand wasp Bembix americana (Hym.: Crabronidae) Frit fly Thaumatomyia glabra (Dip.: Chloropidae) Layla Munger   Crab spider […]<\/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-8700","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\/8700","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=8700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}