{"id":8802,"date":"2019-07-26T09:31:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8802"},"modified":"2019-07-26T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:36:03","slug":"july-26-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8802","title":{"rendered":"July 26 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 July 26 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Val George sends photographs of two moths at the Goldstream Park Nature House, July 24.&nbsp; The first seems to be an unusual colour variety of  <strong><em>Ipimorpha nanaimo.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"353\" originalheight=\"231\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pastedImage-269.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ipimorpha nanaimo <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"429\" originalheight=\"371\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pastedImage-270.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eulithis xylina <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; On July 24, Layla Munger photographed this little syrphid fly in Oak Bay.&nbsp; It was identified by Dr Jeff Skevington of Ottawa while he was away on holiday in Ecuador!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"453\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"433.8346153846154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pastedImage-271.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sphaerophoria <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp; Layla Munger<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Dr Skevington also identified, while on holiday in Ecuador, the next two syrphids, photographed by Layla in Oak Bay on July 19:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"449\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"430.00384615384615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pastedImage-272.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female <em>Fazia micrura <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp; Layla Munger<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"457\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"437.66538461538465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pastedImage-273.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eumerus <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Syrphidae)&nbsp; Layla Munger<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jermy Tatum writes:&nbsp; The <strong>Satyr Comma <\/strong>  below came from one of the caterpillars found on nettle along Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake during the rainy Butterfly Walk on July 7.&nbsp; I released it today in the same place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"478\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"457.7769230769231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pastedImage-274.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female Satyr Comma <em>Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy continues:&nbsp; At 6:00 pm on July 25 there were four  <strong>Painted Ladies<\/strong> at the top of Mount Tolmie.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 July 26 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Val George sends photographs of two moths at the Goldstream Park Nature House, July 24.&nbsp; The first seems to be an unusual colour variety of Ipimorpha nanaimo. &nbsp; &nbsp; Ipimorpha nanaimo (Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Val George &nbsp; Eulithis xylina (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Val George &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; On July 24, Layla Munger [&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-8802","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\/8802","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=8802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}