{"id":8765,"date":"2019-07-23T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T02:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8765"},"modified":"2019-07-26T09:19:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:19:19","slug":"july-23-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8765","title":{"rendered":"July 23 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

2019 July 23 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Thanks to Cheryl Hoyle who points out that one of Layle Munger\u2019s pictures of a pentatomid bug nymph on this morning\u2019s posting appears to be the same species as the bug nymph photographed and identified by Terry Thormin in the 2010 August 31 Invertebrate Alert, namely a green stink bug <\/strong>of the genus Chlorochroa<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We have now so labelled it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Layla Munger also sent a photograph of a bee, Oak Bay, July 22.\u00a0 This has now been identified by Annie Pang and Lincoln Best as a male sweat bee <\/strong>Halictus rubicundus<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n


\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Halictus rubicundus<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Hym.: Halictidae) Layla Munger<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Bud Logan sends pictures of a horsefly <\/strong> probably of the genus Hybomitra. <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0As ever, we would be grateful if any viewer can identify it further.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Horse fly Hybomitra <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Tabanidae)\u00a0 Bud Logan<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Horse fly Hybomitra <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Tabanidae)\u00a0 Bud Logan<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Horse fly Hybomitra <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Tabanidae)\u00a0 Bud Logan<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Bud also sends a picture of an equally fierce-looking tachinid fly.\u00a0 It seems to be either Hystricia abrupta<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0or the somewhat similar Paradejeania rutilioides<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 If any viewer can shed some light on this, please let us know.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Parasitoidal fly (Dip.: Tachinidae)\u00a0 Bud Logan<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum sends a picture of a caterpillar found on Gumweed at Island View Beach:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n


\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Cucullia montanae <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin tells us that Kirsten Mills saw one or more Branded Skippers <\/strong>at Cordova (Saanichton) Spit today.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum checked the Buddleia bush at Finnerty Gardens (UVic) today where he saw five species of butterfly together on July 21.\u00a0 Today there was just one Cabbage White <\/strong>and one Woodland Skipper.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>But, to more than make up for lack of butterflies on that Buddleia bush, there was a magnificent Bedstraw Hawk Moth <\/strong>Hyles gallii <\/em><\/strong>hovering in front of the flowers with rapidly beating wings.\u00a0 Very exciting!\u00a0 That is the third Bedstraw Hawk Moth reported to Invertebrate Alert this year.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 One more photograph before we close shop for the day.\u00a0 A snail<\/strong> enjoying a Welsh Poppy at Finnerty Gardens:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n


\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Cepaea nemoralis <\/em>(Pul.:\u00a0 Helicidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2019 July 23 evening \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Cheryl Hoyle who points out that one of Layle Munger\u2019s pictures of a pentatomid bug nymph on this morning\u2019s posting appears to be the same species as the bug nymph photographed and identified by Terry Thormin in the 2010 August 31 Invertebrate Alert, namely a green stink […]<\/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-8765","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\/8765","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=8765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8801,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions\/8801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}