{"id":3477,"date":"2016-12-13T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp\/photo-contest\/previous-photo-contests\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T15:41:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T15:41:37","slug":"concours-photo-precedents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/photo-contest\/concours-photo-precedents\/","title":{"rendered":"Concours photo pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  av-section-color-overlay-active avia-bg-style-scroll  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first   av-minimum-height av-minimum-height-custom  container_wrap sidebar_right' style='background-color: #9cbfc1;  '  ><div class='av-section-color-overlay-wrap'><div class='av-section-color-overlay' style='opacity: 0.5; background-image: url(https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold\/images\/background-images\/diagonal-thin-light.png); background-repeat: repeat;'><\/div><div class='container' style='height:100px'><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-3477'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-3477'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  style='padding-bottom:10px; font-size:35px;' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h1  blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  av-inherit-size '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Soumissions \u00e0 des concours de photos pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents<\/h1><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h2  blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_gallery  '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Concours de photos Douzi\u00e8me annuel &#8211; 2016<\/h2><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='avia-gallery  avia-gallery-1 deactivate_avia_lazyload avia-gallery-animate avia_animate_when_visible  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_heading '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class='avia-gallery-thumb'> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.031-1030x682.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.031-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='1' title='Egg mass of southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula, Del\u00e9mont Switzerland'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1231 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1231\"  data-avia-tooltip='Egg mass of southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula, Del\u00e9mont Switzerland' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.031-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Nezara viridula egg mass' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.030-1030x682.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.030-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='2' title='Cabbage plant consumed by larvae of large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1230 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1230\"  data-avia-tooltip='Cabbage plant consumed by larvae of large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.030-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Large white butterfly larvae, Pieris brassicae' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.028-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.028-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='3' title='Orchid bee Euglossa dilemma Bemb\u00e9 &#038; Eltz, male\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1229 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1229\"  data-avia-tooltip='Orchid bee Euglossa dilemma Bemb\u00e9 &#038; Eltz, male\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.028-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Euglossa dilemma Male' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.027-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.027-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='4' title='Raspberry cane borer collected and photographed during a \u00ab\u00a0Bug Blitz\u00a0\u00bb at FortWhyte in Winnipeg Manitoba.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1228 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1228\"  data-avia-tooltip='Raspberry cane borer collected and photographed during a \u00ab\u00a0Bug Blitz\u00a0\u00bb at FortWhyte in Winnipeg Manitoba.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.027-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Raspberry cane borer (Oberea perspicillata)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.026-682x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.026-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='5' title='One of the 50+ Megarhyssid wasps observed on a single dead maple tree limb on June 8, 2016 in Winnipeg Manitoba.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1227 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1227\"  data-avia-tooltip='One of the 50+ Megarhyssid wasps observed on a single dead maple tree limb on June 8, 2016 in Winnipeg Manitoba.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.026-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Megarhyssa atrata\u00a0oviposition' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.025-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.025-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='6' title='A strikingly high quantity of\u00a0Degeeriella sp.\u00a0lice on the neck of a red-tailed hawk.\u00a0\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1226 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1226\"  data-avia-tooltip='A strikingly high quantity of\u00a0Degeeriella sp.\u00a0lice on the neck of a red-tailed hawk.\u00a0\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.025-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Chewing lice on a red-tailed hawk' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.024-1030x675.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.024-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='7' title='Grasshopper (family: Acrodidae) collected in Summerland, BC. Image created via stacked images taken with a Nikon D5100 mounted on a Zeiss Stemi microscope.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1225 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1225\"  data-avia-tooltip='Grasshopper (family: Acrodidae) collected in Summerland, BC. Image created via stacked images taken with a Nikon D5100 mounted on a Zeiss Stemi microscope.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.024-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Orthoptera' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.023-1030x694.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.023-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='8' title='Cricket (family: Gryllidae) collected in British Columbia. Image created via stacked images taken with a Nikon D5100 mounted on a Zeiss Stemi microscope.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1224 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1224\"  data-avia-tooltip='Cricket (family: Gryllidae) collected in British Columbia. Image created via stacked images taken with a Nikon D5100 mounted on a Zeiss Stemi microscope.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.023-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Orthoptera 2' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.033-1030x682.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.033-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='9' title='Creatures of the night: the drinker, Euthrix potatoria, ready for take-off (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1223 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1223\"  data-avia-tooltip='Creatures of the night: the drinker, Euthrix potatoria, ready for take-off (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.033-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Euthrix potatoria taking off' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.022-1030x682.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.022-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='10' title='Darner (family: Aeshnidae) collected in Agassiz, BC. Image created via stacked images taken with a Nikon D5100 mounted on a Zeiss Stemi microscope.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1221 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1221\"  data-avia-tooltip='Darner (family: Aeshnidae) collected in Agassiz, BC. Image created via stacked images taken with a Nikon D5100 mounted on a Zeiss Stemi microscope.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.022-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Odonata' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.021-1030x681.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.021-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='11' title='Wolf spider (family: Lycosidae) carrying its young on her abdomen collected from the field in Agassiz, BC. Image created via stacked images taken with a Nikon D5100 mounted on a Zeiss Stemi microscope.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1220 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1220\"  data-avia-tooltip='Wolf spider (family: Lycosidae) carrying its young on her abdomen collected from the field in Agassiz, BC. Image created via stacked images taken with a Nikon D5100 mounted on a Zeiss Stemi microscope.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.021-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Aranae' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.009-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.009-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='12' title='An orb-weaver spider in the family Araneidae building it&rsquo;s web in the forests of Pacific Spirit Park in Vancouver, BC.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1219 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1219\"  data-avia-tooltip='An orb-weaver spider in the family Araneidae building it&rsquo;s web in the forests of Pacific Spirit Park in Vancouver, BC.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.009-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Orb-weaver spider' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.008-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.008-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='13' title='A female Misumena vatia (Clerck) with her prey at the Riverside Wetlands in Pemberton, BC.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1218 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1218\"  data-avia-tooltip='A female Misumena vatia (Clerck) with her prey at the Riverside Wetlands in Pemberton, BC.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.008-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Misumena vatia female' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.007-1-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.007-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='14' title='A male Chionea alexandriana (Diptera: Limoniidae), a wingless fly, on snow in the sub-alpine forest on Mount Seymour, British Columbia, Canada.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1217 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1217\"  data-avia-tooltip='A male Chionea alexandriana (Diptera: Limoniidae), a wingless fly, on snow in the sub-alpine forest on Mount Seymour, British Columbia, Canada.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.007-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Chionea alexandriana male' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.014-579x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.014-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='15' title='This budding young entomologist insists on holding any &lsquo;bug&rsquo; that he sees, like this weevil. Timberlea, N.S.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1190 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1190\"  data-avia-tooltip='This budding young entomologist insists on holding any &lsquo;bug&rsquo; that he sees, like this weevil. Timberlea, N.S.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.014-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='P1070068' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.035-773x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.035-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='16' title='I thought that I would send this photo I took this morning of freshly laid cutworm eggs \u2013 probably Noctua pronuba (because they lay their eggs on any thing over grass!) on the needles of a Dawn Redwood (Taxodium distichum). \n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1211 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1211\"  data-avia-tooltip='I thought that I would send this photo I took this morning of freshly laid cutworm eggs \u2013 probably Noctua pronuba (because they lay their eggs on any thing over grass!) on the needles of a Dawn Redwood (Taxodium distichum). \n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.035-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Cutworm eggs' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.034-1030x682.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.034-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='17' title='Overcoming insect phobia: holding a giant Death&rsquo;s-head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1210 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1210\"  data-avia-tooltip='Overcoming insect phobia: holding a giant Death&rsquo;s-head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.034-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Losing fear of big moth, Acherontia atropos' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.020-1030x793.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.020-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='18' title='Argiope trifasciata (Forsk\u00e5l) photographed near Drumheller, AB.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1196 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1196\"  data-avia-tooltip='Argiope trifasciata (Forsk\u00e5l) photographed near Drumheller, AB.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.020-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='GRP5' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.018-1030x773.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.018-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='19' title='Natural Resources Canada employee Daryl Williams firing a rope into a tree canopy, to deploy a funnel trap as part of a wood-boring beetle study in Edmonton, AB.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1194 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1194\"  data-avia-tooltip='Natural Resources Canada employee Daryl Williams firing a rope into a tree canopy, to deploy a funnel trap as part of a wood-boring beetle study in Edmonton, AB.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.018-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='GRP3' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.017-1030x773.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.017-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='20' title='Ghost Cranefly (Bittacomorpha clavipes (Fabricius)) photographed in Gros Morne National Park, NF.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1193 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1193\"  data-avia-tooltip='Ghost Cranefly (Bittacomorpha clavipes (Fabricius)) photographed in Gros Morne National Park, NF.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.017-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='GRP2' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.016-1030x829.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.016-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='21' title='Maple Leafcutter Moth (Paraclemensia acerifoliella (Fitch)) ovipositing on a newly documented host, saskatoon (Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt)). Photo taken near Lac La Biche, AB\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1192 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1192\"  data-avia-tooltip='Maple Leafcutter Moth (Paraclemensia acerifoliella (Fitch)) ovipositing on a newly documented host, saskatoon (Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt)). Photo taken near Lac La Biche, AB\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.016-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='GRP1' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.015-1030x772.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.015-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='22' title='This female Ebony jewelwing, Calopteryx maculata, was one of many circling a stream in Denver, N.S.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1191 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1191\"  data-avia-tooltip='This female Ebony jewelwing, Calopteryx maculata, was one of many circling a stream in Denver, N.S.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.015-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='P1070223' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.013-1030x772.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.013-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='23' title='Butterfly at rest on a fallen leaf in Denver, N.S.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1189 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1189\"  data-avia-tooltip='Butterfly at rest on a fallen leaf in Denver, N.S.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.013-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='P1060854' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.012-1030x772.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.012-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='24' title='Butterfly on a pine in Denver, N.S\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1188 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1188\"  data-avia-tooltip='Butterfly on a pine in Denver, N.S\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.012-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='P1060847' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.011-772x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.011-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='25' title='Dog day cicada, Tibicen canicularis, in Denver, N.S.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1187 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1187\"  data-avia-tooltip='Dog day cicada, Tibicen canicularis, in Denver, N.S.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.011-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='P1050764' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.010-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.010-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='26' title='An adult Phidippus jumping spider at Iona Beach Regional Park in Richmond, BC\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1186 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1186\"  data-avia-tooltip='An adult Phidippus jumping spider at Iona Beach Regional Park in Richmond, BC\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.010-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Phidippus jumping spider' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.006-687x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.006-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='27' title='A female Misumena vatia (Clerck) with her prey at the Riverside Wetlands in Pemberton, BC.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1182 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1182\"  data-avia-tooltip='A female Misumena vatia (Clerck) with her prey at the Riverside Wetlands in Pemberton, BC.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.006-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Misumena vatia female' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.004-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.004-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='28' title='Libellulidae &#8211; Libellula quadrimaculata, Ficner cottage A Libellula quadrimaculata perched on a dead plant stalk in a meadow near Farren Lake, Westport, ON.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1180 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1180\"  data-avia-tooltip='Libellulidae &#8211; Libellula quadrimaculata, Ficner cottage A Libellula quadrimaculata perched on a dead plant stalk in a meadow near Farren Lake, Westport, ON.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.004-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Libellula quadrimaculata' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.001-687x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.001-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='29' title='A Tachinid fly, Archytas sp., on display in Centreville, ON.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1177 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1177\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Tachinid fly, Archytas sp., on display in Centreville, ON.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.001-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Archytas sp.' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.002-687x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.002-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='30' title='A carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus, taking in the view of the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, ON.\n'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1178 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1178\"  data-avia-tooltip='A carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus, taking in the view of the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, ON.\n' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.002-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Carpenter ant' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.003-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.003-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='31' title='Gatineau Entomologist at work &#8211; An up-close view of an aphid infestation in Gatineau Park, Gatineau, QC.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1179 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1179\"  data-avia-tooltip='Gatineau Entomologist at work &#8211; An up-close view of an aphid infestation in Gatineau Park, Gatineau, QC.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.003-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Entomologist at work' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.029-691x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.029-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='32' title='A male Chionea alexandriana (Diptera: Limoniidae), a wingless fly, on snow in the sub-alpine forest on Mount Seymour, British Columbia, Canada.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1173 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1173\"  data-avia-tooltip='A male Chionea alexandriana (Diptera: Limoniidae), a wingless fly, on snow in the sub-alpine forest on Mount Seymour, British Columbia, Canada.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC.029-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Mayflies in tandem' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC-019-Entomologists-in-action-1030x773.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC-019-Entomologists-in-action-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='33' title='Members of the Arthropod Species Specialist Subcommittee of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada doing an insect survey in a bog near Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1170 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1170\"  data-avia-tooltip='Members of the Arthropod Species Specialist Subcommittee of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada doing an insect survey in a bog near Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC-019-Entomologists-in-action-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Entomologists in action' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC-032-Acherontia-atropos-1030x682.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC-032-Acherontia-atropos-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='34' title='Face to face with the death&rsquo;s-head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1168 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1168\"  data-avia-tooltip='Face to face with the death&rsquo;s-head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC-032-Acherontia-atropos-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Acherontia atropos' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC-005-Milkweed-bug-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC-005-Milkweed-bug-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='35' title='A milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae), moulting on milkweed in Centreville, Ontario, Canada.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1162 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1162\"  data-avia-tooltip='A milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae), moulting on milkweed in Centreville, Ontario, Canada.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESC-005-Milkweed-bug-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Milkweed bug' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h2  blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_gallery  el_before_av_gallery  '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Concours de photos Onzi\u00e8me annuel &#8211; 2015<\/h2><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='avia-gallery  avia-gallery-2 deactivate_avia_lazyload avia-gallery-animate avia_animate_when_visible  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_heading '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class='avia-gallery-thumb'> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775485.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775485-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='1' title='On the beach in NB is red admiral (Vanessa atalanta rubria)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1061 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1061\"  data-avia-tooltip='On the beach in NB is red admiral (Vanessa atalanta rubria)' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775485-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Jan Klimiazewski' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775528.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775528-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='2' title='On the beach in NB is red admiral (Vanessa atalanta rubria)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1062 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1062\"  data-avia-tooltip='On the beach in NB is red admiral (Vanessa atalanta rubria)' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775528-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Jan Klimiazewski' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775614-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775614-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='3' title='Speyeria sp. (possibly S. aphrodite winni)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1064 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1064\"  data-avia-tooltip='Speyeria sp. (possibly S. aphrodite winni)' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775614-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Jan Klimiazewski' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775655.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775655.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='4' title='Araneus trifolium (Hentz, 1847) (Aranaeidae), the shamrock or pumpkin orbweaver, may vary from strawberry red to green, and  seems to prefer low vegetation. This female had ventured out on her web allowing me to take a portrait. Prince George, BC.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1065 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1065\"  data-avia-tooltip='Araneus trifolium (Hentz, 1847) (Aranaeidae), the shamrock or pumpkin orbweaver, may vary from strawberry red to green, and  seems to prefer low vegetation. This female had ventured out on her web allowing me to take a portrait. Prince George, BC.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775655.jpg' width='492' height='394'  title='Staffan Lindgren' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775698-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775698-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='5' title='Polygonia faunus (Edwards, 1862) (Nymphalidae), the green comma is one of the more common spring butterflies in BC. This somewhat tattered specimen was perched high on a pussy willow. Bowron River, ca. 40 km east of Prince George, BC.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1066 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1066\"  data-avia-tooltip='Polygonia faunus (Edwards, 1862) (Nymphalidae), the green comma is one of the more common spring butterflies in BC. This somewhat tattered specimen was perched high on a pussy willow. Bowron River, ca. 40 km east of Prince George, BC.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775698-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Staffan Lindgren' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775735-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775735-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='6' title='Hylobius warreni Wood, 1957 (Curculionidae) has been one of my favourite research subjects. These long-lived, charismatic but cryptic insects are flightless and appear to use random movement and vision to find their live host trees. Prince George, BC.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1067 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1067\"  data-avia-tooltip='Hylobius warreni Wood, 1957 (Curculionidae) has been one of my favourite research subjects. These long-lived, charismatic but cryptic insects are flightless and appear to use random movement and vision to find their live host trees. Prince George, BC.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775735-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Staffan Lindgren' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775770.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775770.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='7' title='Malacosoma disstria H\u00fcbner, 1820 (Lasiocampidae), the forest tent caterpillar, has plagued Prince George twice since my arrival 21 years ago. During outbreaks they migrate in large numbers, feeding on aspen and a variety of other plants. Prince George, BC.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1068 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1068\"  data-avia-tooltip='Malacosoma disstria H\u00fcbner, 1820 (Lasiocampidae), the forest tent caterpillar, has plagued Prince George twice since my arrival 21 years ago. During outbreaks they migrate in large numbers, feeding on aspen and a variety of other plants. Prince George, BC.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775770.jpg' width='384' height='256'  title='Staffan Lindgren' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775811.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775811.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='8' title='Megachile Latreille, 1802 (Megachilidae) leafcutter bees are important pollinators widely used in alfalfa growing areas. Their reproductive biology is quite interesting. This specimen was excavating its nest in an old wood retaining wall in our garden. Prince George, BC.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1069 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1069\"  data-avia-tooltip='Megachile Latreille, 1802 (Megachilidae) leafcutter bees are important pollinators widely used in alfalfa growing areas. Their reproductive biology is quite interesting. This specimen was excavating its nest in an old wood retaining wall in our garden. Prince George, BC.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775811.jpg' width='492' height='355'  title='Staffan Lindgren' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775843-1030x773.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775843-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='9' title='A water strider (Gerridae) skimming a calm lake surface in Denver, NS.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1070 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1070\"  data-avia-tooltip='A water strider (Gerridae) skimming a calm lake surface in Denver, NS.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775843-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Colin MacKay' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775889-1030x773.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775889-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='10' title='The longhorned beetle Bellamira scalaris preparing for takeoff in Denver, NS.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1071 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1071\"  data-avia-tooltip='The longhorned beetle Bellamira scalaris preparing for takeoff in Denver, NS.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775889-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Colin MacKay' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775923-773x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775923-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='11' title='Hover fly (possibly Meliscaeva cinctella) foraging on wildflowers in Denver, NS.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1072 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1072\"  data-avia-tooltip='Hover fly (possibly Meliscaeva cinctella) foraging on wildflowers in Denver, NS.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775923-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Colin MacKay' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775957-773x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775957-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='12' title='Brown-hooded owlet caterpillar, Cucullia convexipennis, on wildflowers in Denver, NS.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1073 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1073\"  data-avia-tooltip='Brown-hooded owlet caterpillar, Cucullia convexipennis, on wildflowers in Denver, NS.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775957-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Colin MacKay' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775994-1030x773.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775994-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='13' title='Very convincing monarch mimic that required photographic confirmation to ID as a Viceroy butterfly, Limenitis archippus. Denver, NS.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1074 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1074\"  data-avia-tooltip='Very convincing monarch mimic that required photographic confirmation to ID as a Viceroy butterfly, Limenitis archippus. Denver, NS.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775994-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Colin MacKay' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776028-832x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776028-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='14' title='A female of the Ichneumon parasitoid, Apechthis ontario, in a rearing cage. This species can attack different lepidopteran species, including the Spruce Budworm and the Hemlock Looper during their pupal stage.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1075 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1075\"  data-avia-tooltip='A female of the Ichneumon parasitoid, Apechthis ontario, in a rearing cage. This species can attack different lepidopteran species, including the Spruce Budworm and the Hemlock Looper during their pupal stage.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776028-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='V\u00e9ronique Martel' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776087-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776087-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='15' title='A Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) larva feeding on the annual buds of a balsam fir during an outbreak. The Spruce Budworm is a major native defoliator in Eastern Canada. Near Baie-Comeau, Qu\u00e9bec.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1076 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1076\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) larva feeding on the annual buds of a balsam fir during an outbreak. The Spruce Budworm is a major native defoliator in Eastern Canada. Near Baie-Comeau, Qu\u00e9bec.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776087-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='V\u00e9ronique Martel' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776118-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776118-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='16' title='A Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) pupa on a balsam fir branch. The Spruce Budworm is a major native defoliator in Eastern Canada. Near Baie-Comeau, Qu\u00e9bec.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1077 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1077\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) pupa on a balsam fir branch. The Spruce Budworm is a major native defoliator in Eastern Canada. Near Baie-Comeau, Qu\u00e9bec.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776118-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='V\u00e9ronique Martel' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776158-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776158-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='17' title='An empty Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) pupal case. The Spruce Budworm is a major native defoliator in Eastern Canada. Near Baie-Comeau, Qu\u00e9bec'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1078 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1078\"  data-avia-tooltip='An empty Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) pupal case. The Spruce Budworm is a major native defoliator in Eastern Canada. Near Baie-Comeau, Qu\u00e9bec' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776158-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='V\u00e9ronique Martel' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776191-1030x687.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776191-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='18' title='A Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) larva on a balsam fir branch during an outbreak. The Spruce Budworm is a major native defoliator in Eastern Canada. Near Baie-Comeau, Qu\u00e9bec.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1079 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1079\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) larva on a balsam fir branch during an outbreak. The Spruce Budworm is a major native defoliator in Eastern Canada. Near Baie-Comeau, Qu\u00e9bec.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776191-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='V\u00e9ronique Martel' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776226.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776226.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='19' title='Adelges lariciatus (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), Vernon, BC. This adult female emerged from a spruce gall, flew to a larch tree, and is laying eggs that hatch to crawlers which will overwinter on larch buds. '  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1080 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1080\"  data-avia-tooltip='Adelges lariciatus (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), Vernon, BC. This adult female emerged from a spruce gall, flew to a larch tree, and is laying eggs that hatch to crawlers which will overwinter on larch buds. ' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776226.jpg' width='360' height='250'  title='Ward Strong' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776263-1030x720.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776263-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='20' title='Calliphoridae (Diptera), Oyama, BC. Sitting on a bright chrysanthemum, this blow fly seems to be making up in aesthetics what it lacks in personal hygiene.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1081 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1081\"  data-avia-tooltip='Calliphoridae (Diptera), Oyama, BC. Sitting on a bright chrysanthemum, this blow fly seems to be making up in aesthetics what it lacks in personal hygiene.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776263-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Ward Strong' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776296.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776296-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='21' title='Choristoneura occidentalis, Vernon, BC. A gravid female spruce budworm oviposits her load of bright blue eggs on a Douglas-fir needle.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1082 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1082\"  data-avia-tooltip='Choristoneura occidentalis, Vernon, BC. A gravid female spruce budworm oviposits her load of bright blue eggs on a Douglas-fir needle.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776296-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Ward Strong' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776333-1030x686.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776333-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='22' title='Vernon, BC. Graduate students collect at a light trap late at night. The bright lights are powered by the car\u2019s battery.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1083 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1083\"  data-avia-tooltip='Vernon, BC. Graduate students collect at a light trap late at night. The bright lights are powered by the car\u2019s battery.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776333-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Ward Strong' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776371.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776371-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='23' title='Tipulidae, Oyama, BC. This cranefly was caught peering through a window.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1084 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1084\"  data-avia-tooltip='Tipulidae, Oyama, BC. This cranefly was caught peering through a window.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776371-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Ward Strong' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776404-1030x796.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776404-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='24' title='This female sharpshooter, Draeculacephala angulifera (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) was captured in an emergence trap early in the spring in Alberta, SK.\u201d'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1085 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1085\"  data-avia-tooltip='This female sharpshooter, Draeculacephala angulifera (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) was captured in an emergence trap early in the spring in Alberta, SK.\u201d' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444776404-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Tyler Wist' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444781203-1030x938.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444781203-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='25' title='The aleocharine beetle is Alisalia testacea'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1086 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1086\"  data-avia-tooltip='The aleocharine beetle is Alisalia testacea' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444781203-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Jan Klimiazewski' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444773318.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444773318-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='26' title='Ambush Bugs: In a field of goldenrod in Centreville, ON, this female ambush bug (<I>Phymata<\/I> sp.) is being mated while feeding on her prized honey bee.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-7636 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-7636\"  data-avia-tooltip='Ambush Bugs: In a field of goldenrod in Centreville, ON, this female ambush bug (<I>Phymata<\/I> sp.) is being mated while feeding on her prized honey bee.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444773318-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Andrea Brauner' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775274-1030x682.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775274-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='27' title='Two females of Pteromalus puparum (Pteromalidae) parasitizing a pupae of the small white butterfly, Pieris rapae (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1056 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1056\"  data-avia-tooltip='Two females of Pteromalus puparum (Pteromalidae) parasitizing a pupae of the small white butterfly, Pieris rapae (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775274-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Tim Haye' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775437-1030x682.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775437-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='28' title='The potential biological control agent Cyphocleanus trisulcatus (Curculionidae) feeding on ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), an invasive weed in North America (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1060 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1060\"  data-avia-tooltip='The potential biological control agent Cyphocleanus trisulcatus (Curculionidae) feeding on ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), an invasive weed in North America (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775437-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Tim Haye' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775396-1030x682.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775396-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='29' title='Garden tiger, Arctica caja, showing its warning coloration to scare off predators (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1059 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1059\"  data-avia-tooltip='Garden tiger, Arctica caja, showing its warning coloration to scare off predators (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775396-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Tim Haye' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775355.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775355-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='30' title='A fossil Ichneumonid from the Eocene epoch preserved in Baltic amber found in Yantarny, Russia'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1058 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1058\"  data-avia-tooltip='A fossil Ichneumonid from the Eocene epoch preserved in Baltic amber found in Yantarny, Russia' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775355-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Tim Haye' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775320-1030x751.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775320-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='31' title='Predator versus parasitoid: Rhinocoris annulatus feeding on an ichneumonid (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1057 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1057\"  data-avia-tooltip='Predator versus parasitoid: Rhinocoris annulatus feeding on an ichneumonid (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775320-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Tim Haye' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775232-1030x773.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775232-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='32' title='Female Phasgonophora sulcata, a North American parasitoid of emerald ash borer, tethered to a flight mill in a laboratory at the Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) to study factors affecting flight.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1055 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1055\"  data-avia-tooltip='Female Phasgonophora sulcata, a North American parasitoid of emerald ash borer, tethered to a flight mill in a laboratory at the Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) to study factors affecting flight.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775232-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Justin Gaudon' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775186-1030x773.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775186-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='33' title='Female Atanycolus sp., a North American parasitoid of emerald ash borer, tethered to a flight mill in a laboratory at the Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) to study factors affecting flight.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1054 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1054\"  data-avia-tooltip='Female Atanycolus sp., a North American parasitoid of emerald ash borer, tethered to a flight mill in a laboratory at the Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) to study factors affecting flight.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775186-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Justin Gaudon' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775144-1030x773.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775144-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='34' title='Zebra Beetle Xylotrechus undulates. I found them emerging from some cut logs that were being used as staging for gift ware in our Gift Store. The wood rounds had been used for the past 2 years and this was the first appearance of the beetles.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1053 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1053\"  data-avia-tooltip='Zebra Beetle Xylotrechus undulates. I found them emerging from some cut logs that were being used as staging for gift ware in our Gift Store. The wood rounds had been used for the past 2 years and this was the first appearance of the beetles.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775144-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Tracy Ferreira' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444774877.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444774877-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='35' title='A grasshopper became caught in an Argiope aurantia\u2019s web in Centreville, ON. She uses the silk produced by her spinnerets to entangle her prey.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1049 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1049\"  data-avia-tooltip='A grasshopper became caught in an Argiope aurantia\u2019s web in Centreville, ON. She uses the silk produced by her spinnerets to entangle her prey.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444774877-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Andrea Brauner' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444774925.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444774925-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='36' title='Hyalophora:Cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia, just after molting to third instar. This lab-reared caterpillar is from the F2 generation of a gravid female collected in 2014 from Black Donald Lake near Calabogie, ON.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1050 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1050\"  data-avia-tooltip='Hyalophora:Cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia, just after molting to third instar. This lab-reared caterpillar is from the F2 generation of a gravid female collected in 2014 from Black Donald Lake near Calabogie, ON.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444774925-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Andrea Brauner' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775017.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775017-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='37' title='Diapheromera femorata:These Northern Walkingsticks, Diapheromera femorata, were found mating on prickly ash. Due to their cryptic colouration, this was a very exciting find.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1051 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1051\"  data-avia-tooltip='Diapheromera femorata:These Northern Walkingsticks, Diapheromera femorata, were found mating on prickly ash. Due to their cryptic colouration, this was a very exciting find.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775017-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Andrea Brauner' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775100.jpg' data-rel='gallery-2' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775100-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='38' title='Papilio glaucus:This Eastern Tiger Swallowtail larva, Papilio glaucus, was found feeding on poplar in Centreville, ON. The false eyespots, giving it an anthropomorphic quality, help to deter predators.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1052 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1052\"  data-avia-tooltip='Papilio glaucus:This Eastern Tiger Swallowtail larva, Papilio glaucus, was found feeding on poplar in Centreville, ON. The false eyespots, giving it an anthropomorphic quality, help to deter predators.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20151013_1444775100-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Andrea Brauner' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h2  blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_gallery  el_before_av_gallery  '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Concours de photos dixi\u00e8me annuel &#8211; 2014<\/h2><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='avia-gallery  avia-gallery-3 deactivate_avia_lazyload avia-gallery-animate avia_animate_when_visible  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_heading '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class='avia-gallery-thumb'> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410438874-1030x824.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410438874-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='1' title='A fallen bald-faced hornet\u2019s nest (Dolichovespula maculate), found in Manotick, ON,  led to a rare opportunity to photograph larvae inside the cells.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1677 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1677\"  data-avia-tooltip='A fallen bald-faced hornet\u2019s nest (Dolichovespula maculate), found in Manotick, ON,  led to a rare opportunity to photograph larvae inside the cells.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410438874-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Andrea Brauner' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410438913-686x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410438913-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='2' title='Two lab-raised Eumaeus godartii (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) butterflies are almost ready to emerge at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panam\u00e1 City (Republic of Panam\u00e1).'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1678 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1678\"  data-avia-tooltip='Two lab-raised Eumaeus godartii (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) butterflies are almost ready to emerge at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panam\u00e1 City (Republic of Panam\u00e1).' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410438913-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Nicolas Chatel-Launay' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410438965-1030x686.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410438965-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='3' title='Three European honey bees on a brood comb.  The lightest coloured bee (bottom left) is freshly emerged.   Department of Entomology at the University of Manitoba (Apis mellifera).'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1679 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1679\"  data-avia-tooltip='Three European honey bees on a brood comb.  The lightest coloured bee (bottom left) is freshly emerged.   Department of Entomology at the University of Manitoba (Apis mellifera).' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410438965-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Megan Colwell' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439010-1030x686.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439010-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='4' title='Cerambycidae, Monochamus scutellatus taking flight.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1680 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1680\"  data-avia-tooltip='Cerambycidae, Monochamus scutellatus taking flight.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439010-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Miles Zhang' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439048-1030x824.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439048-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='5' title='Honeybee (Apis mellifera) foraging on chive flowers in a garden in Prince George, BC. June 2014.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1681 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1681\"  data-avia-tooltip='Honeybee (Apis mellifera) foraging on chive flowers in a garden in Prince George, BC. June 2014.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439048-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Dezene Huber' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439126-1030x758.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439126-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='6' title='Submitted by Jan Klimaszewski. Boreocypha websteri, a new genus and species described from Canada'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1682 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1682\"  data-avia-tooltip='Submitted by Jan Klimaszewski. Boreocypha websteri, a new genus and species described from Canada' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439126-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Klaus Bolte' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439164-1030x747.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439164-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='7' title='A two-striped grasshopper, Melanoplus bivittatus, ovipositing beside a road in Torrance, ON.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1683 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1683\"  data-avia-tooltip='A two-striped grasshopper, Melanoplus bivittatus, ovipositing beside a road in Torrance, ON.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439164-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Justin M. Gaudon' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439200-1030x824.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439200-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='8' title='Lily leaf beetle, Lilioceris lilii, was destroying my backyard lilies in Ottawa, ON. This egg-laying machine was brought back to the lab where a closer eye could be kept on her.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1684 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1684\"  data-avia-tooltip='Lily leaf beetle, Lilioceris lilii, was destroying my backyard lilies in Ottawa, ON. This egg-laying machine was brought back to the lab where a closer eye could be kept on her.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439200-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Andrea Brauner' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439244-1030x690.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439244-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='9' title='Honeybee (Apis mellifera) foraging on chive flowers in a garden in Prince George, BC. June 2014.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1685 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1685\"  data-avia-tooltip='Honeybee (Apis mellifera) foraging on chive flowers in a garden in Prince George, BC. June 2014.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439244-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Dezene Huber' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439287-1030x686.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439287-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='10' title='Danaus gilippus specimen in a small-scale wheat field near the village of Cucunat\u00ed in Panam\u00e1\u2019s Dari\u00e9n Province.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1686 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1686\"  data-avia-tooltip='Danaus gilippus specimen in a small-scale wheat field near the village of Cucunat\u00ed in Panam\u00e1\u2019s Dari\u00e9n Province.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439287-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Nicolas Chatel-Launay' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439323-1030x686.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439323-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='11' title='A \u201cbee louse\u201d (Diptera, Braulidae:  Braula coeca) on a European honey bee (Apis mellifera), posed in a Department of Entomology lab at the University of Manitoba. '  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1687 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1687\"  data-avia-tooltip='A \u201cbee louse\u201d (Diptera, Braulidae:  Braula coeca) on a European honey bee (Apis mellifera), posed in a Department of Entomology lab at the University of Manitoba. ' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439323-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Megan Colwell' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445190-1030x686.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445190-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='12' title='Apidae, Nomada sp.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1658 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1658\"  data-avia-tooltip='Apidae, Nomada sp.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445190-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Miles Zhang' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439436-1030x773.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439436-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='13' title='Nicrophorus species and Calliphoridae feeding on dead mouse.  Waterton, AB'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1689 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1689\"  data-avia-tooltip='Nicrophorus species and Calliphoridae feeding on dead mouse.  Waterton, AB' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439436-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Rosemarie DeClerk-Floate' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439479-1030x682.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439479-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='14' title='The onion beetle, Lilioceris merdigera, laying eggs on Solomon\u2019s Seal (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1690 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1690\"  data-avia-tooltip='The onion beetle, Lilioceris merdigera, laying eggs on Solomon\u2019s Seal (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439479-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Tim Haye' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439518-1030x682.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439518-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='15' title='Anastatus bifasciatus, host feeding on eggs of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1691 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1691\"  data-avia-tooltip='Anastatus bifasciatus, host feeding on eggs of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439518-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Tim Haye' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439558-1030x686.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439558-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='16' title='Department sign at the \u201choney house\u201d bee yard at the University of Manitoba.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1692 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1692\"  data-avia-tooltip='Department sign at the \u201choney house\u201d bee yard at the University of Manitoba.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439558-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Megan Colwell' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439606-1030x686.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439606-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='17' title='Orussidae, Orussus minutus female'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1693 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1693\"  data-avia-tooltip='Orussidae, Orussus minutus female' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439606-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Miles Zhang' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439672-1030x823.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439672-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='18' title='A crab spider, possibly Misumena vatia, waiting for prey in a wild rose blossom. Prince George, BC. June 2014.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1694 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1694\"  data-avia-tooltip='A crab spider, possibly Misumena vatia, waiting for prey in a wild rose blossom. Prince George, BC. June 2014.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439672-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Dezene Huber' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439713-1030x686.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439713-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='19' title='Apidae, Apis mellifera. A white-eyed (blind) male drone.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1695 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1695\"  data-avia-tooltip='Apidae, Apis mellifera. A white-eyed (blind) male drone.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439713-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Miles Zhang' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439773-682x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439773-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='20' title='The invasive spotted wing Drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, ovipositing into a cherry (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1696 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1696\"  data-avia-tooltip='The invasive spotted wing Drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, ovipositing into a cherry (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439773-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Tim Haye' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439814-1030x824.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439814-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='21' title='This parasitized Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica, was collected from Concord grape leaves in Ottawa, ON. The three small eggs on the thorax are from the parasitic Tachinid fly Istocheta aldrichi.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1697 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1697\"  data-avia-tooltip='This parasitized Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica, was collected from Concord grape leaves in Ottawa, ON. The three small eggs on the thorax are from the parasitic Tachinid fly Istocheta aldrichi.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439814-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Andrea Brauner' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445406-686x1030.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445406-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='22' title='Artificial infection of white-eyed European honey bee pupa with Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus for virus proliferation (Apis mellifera).   Lab in the Department of Entomology at the University of Manitoba.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1668 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1668\"  data-avia-tooltip='Artificial infection of white-eyed European honey bee pupa with Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus for virus proliferation (Apis mellifera).   Lab in the Department of Entomology at the University of Manitoba.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445406-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Megan Colwell' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439907.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439907-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='23' title='An Atlantis fritillary, Speyeria atlantis, basking in the sunlight in Torrance, ON.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1699 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1699\"  data-avia-tooltip='An Atlantis fritillary, Speyeria atlantis, basking in the sunlight in Torrance, ON.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410439907-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Justin M. Gaudon' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445443-1030x735.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445443-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='24' title='Sarcophaga aldrichi, the \u00ab\u00a0friendly fly\u00a0\u00bb, being friendly in Prince George, BC. Associated with a large forest tent caterpillar outbreak. June 2014.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1670 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1670\"  data-avia-tooltip='Sarcophaga aldrichi, the \u00ab\u00a0friendly fly\u00a0\u00bb, being friendly in Prince George, BC. Associated with a large forest tent caterpillar outbreak. June 2014.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445443-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Dezene Huber' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410440029-1030x686.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410440029-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='25' title='A muscoid fly victim of the fungus Entomophthora muscae'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1701 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1701\"  data-avia-tooltip='A muscoid fly victim of the fungus Entomophthora muscae' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410440029-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Miles Zhang' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445478-1030x682.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445478-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='26' title='Diadromus pulchellus, a biological control agent introduced into Canada against the invasive leek moth, Acrolepiopsis assectella (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1672 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1672\"  data-avia-tooltip='Diadromus pulchellus, a biological control agent introduced into Canada against the invasive leek moth, Acrolepiopsis assectella (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland)' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445478-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Tim Haye' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410440107-1030x689.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410440107-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='27' title='The very hungry caterpillar (Manduca sexta), inspired by Eric Carle\u2019s children\u2019s picture book (taken at the ESC photo workshop with Alex Wild in Guelph)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1703 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1703\"  data-avia-tooltip='The very hungry caterpillar (Manduca sexta), inspired by Eric Carle\u2019s children\u2019s picture book (taken at the ESC photo workshop with Alex Wild in Guelph)' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140911_1410440107-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Tim Haye' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/10th_annual_61-1030x690.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/10th_annual_61-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='28' title='Monochamus scutellatus found in Prince George, BC. June 2014.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1639 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1639\"  data-avia-tooltip='Monochamus scutellatus found in Prince George, BC. June 2014.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/10th_annual_61-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Dezene Huber' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445527-1030x824.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445527-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='29' title='A gravid female Hyalophora cecropia was caught at Black Donald Lake near Calabogie, ON. She laid eggs in a flight cage in the lab which have hatched and continue to grow into very colourful larvae.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1675 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1675\"  data-avia-tooltip='A gravid female Hyalophora cecropia was caught at Black Donald Lake near Calabogie, ON. She laid eggs in a flight cage in the lab which have hatched and continue to grow into very colourful larvae.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20140830_1409445527-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Andrea Brauner' alt='A gravid female Hyalophora cecropia was caught at Black Donald Lake near Calabogie, ON. She laid eggs in a flight cage in the lab which have hatched and continue to grow into very colourful larvae.' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/10th_annual_33-1030x686.jpg' data-rel='gallery-3' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/10th_annual_33-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='30' title='This twelve-spotted skimmer, Libellula pulchella, touched down on some rebar in a farmer\u2019s field in Centreville, ON. The trees and the brilliant blue sky led to a colourful backdrop'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1611 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1611\"  data-avia-tooltip='This twelve-spotted skimmer, Libellula pulchella, touched down on some rebar in a farmer\u2019s field in Centreville, ON. The trees and the brilliant blue sky led to a colourful backdrop' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/10th_annual_33-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Andrea Brauner' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h2  blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_gallery  el_before_av_gallery  '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Neuvi\u00e8me concours annuel de photographie &#8211; 2013<\/h2><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='avia-gallery  avia-gallery-4 deactivate_avia_lazyload avia-gallery-animate avia_animate_when_visible  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_heading '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class='avia-gallery-thumb'> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_02_lily_leaf_beetles.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_02_lily_leaf_beetles-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='1' title='Lily leaf beetles, Lilioceris lilii (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), an invasive pest of lilies in North America (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland). [photo by Tim Haye'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1260 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1260\"  data-avia-tooltip='Lily leaf beetles, Lilioceris lilii (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), an invasive pest of lilies in North America (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland). [photo by Tim Haye' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_02_lily_leaf_beetles-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='haye_02_lily_leaf_beetles' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hoover_3_megachile_rotundata.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hoover_3_megachile_rotundata-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='2' title='Managed Megachile rotundata (Alfalfa leafcutter) bees used to pollinate seed canola wait for it to warm up in their nests. Near Scandia, Alberta.  [photo by Shelley Hoover]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1266 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1266\"  data-avia-tooltip='Managed Megachile rotundata (Alfalfa leafcutter) bees used to pollinate seed canola wait for it to warm up in their nests. Near Scandia, Alberta.  [photo by Shelley Hoover]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hoover_3_megachile_rotundata-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='hoover_3_megachile_rotundata' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_apapostemon.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_apapostemon-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='3' title='Halictid bee female in the genus Agapostemon in a bull thistle flowerhead.  [photo by Bob Lalonde]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1267 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1267\"  data-avia-tooltip='Halictid bee female in the genus Agapostemon in a bull thistle flowerhead.  [photo by Bob Lalonde]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_apapostemon-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lalonde_apapostemon' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hoover_2_apis_mellifera_and_friend.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hoover_2_apis_mellifera_and_friend-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='4' title='Honey bee is dinner \u2013 Apis mellifera being captured by a crab spider. Beaverlodge Alberta.  [photo by Shelley Hoover]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1265 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1265\"  data-avia-tooltip='Honey bee is dinner \u2013 Apis mellifera being captured by a crab spider. Beaverlodge Alberta.  [photo by Shelley Hoover]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hoover_2_apis_mellifera_and_friend-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='hoover_2_apis_mellifera_and_friend' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_05_trichomalus_perfectus.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_05_trichomalus_perfectus-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='5' title='Trichomalus perfectus searching for larvae of the invasive cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland. [photo by Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1263 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1263\"  data-avia-tooltip='Trichomalus perfectus searching for larvae of the invasive cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland. [photo by Tim Haye]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_05_trichomalus_perfectus-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='haye_05_trichomalus_perfectus' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_04_cabbage_seedpod_weevil.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_04_cabbage_seedpod_weevil-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='6' title='Cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), an invasive pest of canola (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland).  [photo by Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1262 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1262\"  data-avia-tooltip='Cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), an invasive pest of canola (Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland).  [photo by Tim Haye]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_04_cabbage_seedpod_weevil-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='haye_04_cabbage_seedpod_weevil' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hoover_1_aya_hoover.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hoover_1_aya_hoover-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='7' title='Young Entomologist Aya Hoover in action inspecting a frame of honey bees (Apis mellifera) at the AAFC Beaverlodge Research Farm.  [photo by Shelley Hoover]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1264 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1264\"  data-avia-tooltip='Young Entomologist Aya Hoover in action inspecting a frame of honey bees (Apis mellifera) at the AAFC Beaverlodge Research Farm.  [photo by Shelley Hoover]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hoover_1_aya_hoover-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='hoover_1_aya_hoover' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_03_red_clover_casebearer_moth.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_03_red_clover_casebearer_moth-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='8' title='Red clover casebearer moth, Coleophora deauratella, an invasive pest of red clover in Canada, London, ON.  [photo by Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1261 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1261\"  data-avia-tooltip='Red clover casebearer moth, Coleophora deauratella, an invasive pest of red clover in Canada, London, ON.  [photo by Tim Haye]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_03_red_clover_casebearer_moth-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='haye_03_red_clover_casebearer_moth' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_01_cinnabar_moth_larvae.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_01_cinnabar_moth_larvae-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='9' title='Larvae of the cinnabar moth, Tyria jacobaeae (Lepidoptera: Arctiinae), introduced to North America to control tansy ragwort, Senecio jacobeae (Asteraceae), Heiligenhafen, Germany  [photo by Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1259 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1259\"  data-avia-tooltip='Larvae of the cinnabar moth, Tyria jacobaeae (Lepidoptera: Arctiinae), introduced to North America to control tansy ragwort, Senecio jacobeae (Asteraceae), Heiligenhafen, Germany  [photo by Tim Haye]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/haye_01_cinnabar_moth_larvae-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='haye_01_cinnabar_moth_larvae' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_5__sawfly_nematus_sp.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_5__sawfly_nematus_sp-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='10' title='Sawfly, Nematus sp., larvae on aspen. Idaho.  [photo by Malcolm Furniss]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1258 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1258\"  data-avia-tooltip='Sawfly, Nematus sp., larvae on aspen. Idaho.  [photo by Malcolm Furniss]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_5__sawfly_nematus_sp-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='furniss_5__sawfly_nematus_sp' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_4__pteromalid_karpinskiella_paratomicobia.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_4__pteromalid_karpinskiella_paratomicobia-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='11' title='Pteromalid, Karpinskiella paratomicobia, parasitizing Douglas-fir beetle, Utah. This is the only known hymenopterous parasite of an adult Dendroctonus species. It has been found only in southern Utah and northern Arizona. [photo by Malcolm Furniss]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1257 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1257\"  data-avia-tooltip='Pteromalid, Karpinskiella paratomicobia, parasitizing Douglas-fir beetle, Utah. This is the only known hymenopterous parasite of an adult Dendroctonus species. It has been found only in southern Utah and northern Arizona. [photo by Malcolm Furniss]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_4__pteromalid_karpinskiella_paratomicobia-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='furniss_4__pteromalid_karpinskiella_paratomicobia' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_3__new_adult_cicada.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_3__new_adult_cicada-478x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='12' title='Cicada, Platypedia areolata, emerged from its chrysalis, Idaho. [photo by Malcolm Furniss]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1256 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1256\"  data-avia-tooltip='Cicada, Platypedia areolata, emerged from its chrysalis, Idaho. [photo by Malcolm Furniss]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_3__new_adult_cicada-478x400.jpg' width='478' height='400'  title='furniss_3__new_adult_cicada' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_2__locust_borer_megacyllene_robiniae.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_2__locust_borer_megacyllene_robiniae-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='13' title='Locust borer, Megacyllene robiniae, Idaho. [photo by Malcolm Furniss]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1255 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1255\"  data-avia-tooltip='Locust borer, Megacyllene robiniae, Idaho. [photo by Malcolm Furniss]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_2__locust_borer_megacyllene_robiniae-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='furniss_2__locust_borer_megacyllene_robiniae' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_1__geometrid_phigalia_plumogeraria.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_1__geometrid_phigalia_plumogeraria-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='14' title='Geometrid, Phigalia plumogeraria, larva on bitterbrush, Utah. [photo by Malcolm Furniss]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1254 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1254\"  data-avia-tooltip='Geometrid, Phigalia plumogeraria, larva on bitterbrush, Utah. [photo by Malcolm Furniss]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/furniss_1__geometrid_phigalia_plumogeraria-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='furniss_1__geometrid_phigalia_plumogeraria' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_bombus_centralis.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_bombus_centralis-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='15' title='Bombus centralis at a mouse ear plant.  [photo by Bob Lalonde]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1268 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1268\"  data-avia-tooltip='Bombus centralis at a mouse ear plant.  [photo by Bob Lalonde]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_bombus_centralis-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lalonde_bombus_centralis' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_condystylus.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_condystylus-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='16' title='A Dolichopod in the genus Condystylus. [photo by Bob Lalonde]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1269 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1269\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Dolichopod in the genus Condystylus. [photo by Bob Lalonde]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_condystylus-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lalonde_condystylus' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_orthopteran_bird_meal.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_orthopteran_bird_meal-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='17' title='An undetermined orthopteran (too many tarsal segments for a shorthorned grasshopper) moving its biomass up the food chain. Say&rsquo;s phoebe is doing the honours&#8230; [photo by Bob Lalonde]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1270 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1270\"  data-avia-tooltip='An undetermined orthopteran (too many tarsal segments for a shorthorned grasshopper) moving its biomass up the food chain. Say&rsquo;s phoebe is doing the honours&#8230; [photo by Bob Lalonde]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_orthopteran_bird_meal-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lalonde_orthopteran_bird_meal' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_pieris.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_pieris-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='18' title='Two cabbage white butterflies in copula.  [photo by Bob Lalonde]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1271 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1271\"  data-avia-tooltip='Two cabbage white butterflies in copula.  [photo by Bob Lalonde]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lalonde_pieris-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lalonde_pieris' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_1_trichostetha_fascicularis.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_1_trichostetha_fascicularis-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='19' title='Trichostetha fascicularis in a Protea flower &#8211; Kirstenbosch botanical garden Cape Town South Africa 28 October 2007.  [photo by Francois Lieutier]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1272 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1272\"  data-avia-tooltip='Trichostetha fascicularis in a Protea flower &#8211; Kirstenbosch botanical garden Cape Town South Africa 28 October 2007.  [photo by Francois Lieutier]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_1_trichostetha_fascicularis-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lieutier_1_trichostetha_fascicularis' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_2_hyphantria_cunea.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_2_hyphantria_cunea-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='20' title='Hyphantria cunea on a faded flower of Centaurea species &#8211; Saclas South Parisian Basin France 20 July 2009. [photo by Francois Lieutier]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1273 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1273\"  data-avia-tooltip='Hyphantria cunea on a faded flower of Centaurea species &#8211; Saclas South Parisian Basin France 20 July 2009. [photo by Francois Lieutier]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_2_hyphantria_cunea-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lieutier_2_hyphantria_cunea' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_3_cucullia_lychnitis.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_3_cucullia_lychnitis-478x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='21' title='Cucullia lychnitis caterpillar on a stem of Verbascum species &#8211; Escalona, Aragon, Spain 01 July 2011. [photo by Francois Lieutier].'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1274 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1274\"  data-avia-tooltip='Cucullia lychnitis caterpillar on a stem of Verbascum species &#8211; Escalona, Aragon, Spain 01 July 2011. [photo by Francois Lieutier].' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_3_cucullia_lychnitis-478x400.jpg' width='478' height='400'  title='lieutier_3_cucullia_lychnitis' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_4_gonopteryx_rhamni.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_4_gonopteryx_rhamni-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='22' title='Gonopteryx rhamni on a leaf of Rubus &#8211; Saint Etienne de Cantales Renac Lake Cantal France 13 July 2012. [photo by Francois Lieutier]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1275 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1275\"  data-avia-tooltip='Gonopteryx rhamni on a leaf of Rubus &#8211; Saint Etienne de Cantales Renac Lake Cantal France 13 July 2012. [photo by Francois Lieutier]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_4_gonopteryx_rhamni-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lieutier_4_gonopteryx_rhamni' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_5_xylena_exsoleta.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_5_xylena_exsoleta-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='23' title='Xylena exsoleta caterpillar &#8211; Pertusato, Cape Bonifacio, Corsica, France 3 May 2011.  [photo by Francois Lieutier]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1276 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1276\"  data-avia-tooltip='Xylena exsoleta caterpillar &#8211; Pertusato, Cape Bonifacio, Corsica, France 3 May 2011.  [photo by Francois Lieutier]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lieutier_5_xylena_exsoleta-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lieutier_5_xylena_exsoleta' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_1_columbia_silkmoth.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_1_columbia_silkmoth-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='24' title='A Columbia Silkmoth caterpillar (Hyalophora columbia) rears back in a defensive display after a tactile disturbance. Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  [photo by Amanda Lindeman]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1277 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1277\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Columbia Silkmoth caterpillar (Hyalophora columbia) rears back in a defensive display after a tactile disturbance. Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  [photo by Amanda Lindeman]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_1_columbia_silkmoth-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lindeman_1_columbia_silkmoth' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_2_bumblebee_and_beetles__2_.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_2_bumblebee_and_beetles__2_-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='25' title='Bumblebee crashes beetle orgy: a pollinating bumblebee (Bombus) attempts to land on a flower being used as a feeding and mating arena by a group of Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica).  Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [photo by Amanda Lindeman]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1278 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1278\"  data-avia-tooltip='Bumblebee crashes beetle orgy: a pollinating bumblebee (Bombus) attempts to land on a flower being used as a feeding and mating arena by a group of Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica).  Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [photo by Amanda Lindeman]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_2_bumblebee_and_beetles__2_-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lindeman_2_bumblebee_and_beetles__2_' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_3_mosquito__2_.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_3_mosquito__2_-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='26' title='A mosquito (Ochlerotatus trivittatus) satiating herself with a bloody meal. Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  [photo by Amanda Lindeman]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1279 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1279\"  data-avia-tooltip='A mosquito (Ochlerotatus trivittatus) satiating herself with a bloody meal. Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  [photo by Amanda Lindeman]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_3_mosquito__2_-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lindeman_3_mosquito__2_' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_4_wasp.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_4_wasp-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='27' title='A parasitic wasp (Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) stops momentarily on a spruce needle. Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  [photo by Amanda Lindeman]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1280 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1280\"  data-avia-tooltip='A parasitic wasp (Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) stops momentarily on a spruce needle. Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  [photo by Amanda Lindeman]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_4_wasp-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lindeman_4_wasp' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_5_ants_and_aphids.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_5_ants_and_aphids-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='28' title='Ants (Formicidae) offer protection for aphids (Aphidoidea) while feeding off their honeydew in a mutualistic relationship. Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  [photo by Amanda Lindeman]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1281 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1281\"  data-avia-tooltip='Ants (Formicidae) offer protection for aphids (Aphidoidea) while feeding off their honeydew in a mutualistic relationship. Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  [photo by Amanda Lindeman]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lindeman_5_ants_and_aphids-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='lindeman_5_ants_and_aphids' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_culiseta_incidens.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_culiseta_incidens-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='29' title='A large mosquito, Culiseta incidens, tanks up on blood from my finger outside at the SFU campus on Aug. 11, 2013. [photo by Sean McCann]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1282 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1282\"  data-avia-tooltip='A large mosquito, Culiseta incidens, tanks up on blood from my finger outside at the SFU campus on Aug. 11, 2013. [photo by Sean McCann]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_culiseta_incidens-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='mccann_culiseta_incidens' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_desmocerus_aureipennis.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_desmocerus_aureipennis-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='30' title='n Elderberry Longhorn, Desmocerus aureipennis, found during a pheromone study at Colony Farm Regional Park in Coquitlam BC, June 3, 2013.  [photo by Sean McCann]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1283 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1283\"  data-avia-tooltip='n Elderberry Longhorn, Desmocerus aureipennis, found during a pheromone study at Colony Farm Regional Park in Coquitlam BC, June 3, 2013.  [photo by Sean McCann]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_desmocerus_aureipennis-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='mccann_desmocerus_aureipennis' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_1_asian_lady_beetle.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_1_asian_lady_beetle-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='31' title='Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis) on milkweed leaf (Asclepias syriaca), photograph taken in Ste-Ang\u00e8le-de-Monnoir, QC.  [photo by Guillaume Dury]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1285 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1285\"  data-avia-tooltip='Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis) on milkweed leaf (Asclepias syriaca), photograph taken in Ste-Ang\u00e8le-de-Monnoir, QC.  [photo by Guillaume Dury]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_1_asian_lady_beetle-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='dury_1_asian_lady_beetle' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/brodo_sympetrum_internum.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/brodo_sympetrum_internum-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='32' title='Cherry-faced Meadowhawks (Symptetrum internum) in the wheel position (in copula), at the edge of a beaver pond in The Massasauga Provincial Park, Ontario, 24 July, midday.  [photo by Fenja Brodo]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1284 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1284\"  data-avia-tooltip='Cherry-faced Meadowhawks (Symptetrum internum) in the wheel position (in copula), at the edge of a beaver pond in The Massasauga Provincial Park, Ontario, 24 July, midday.  [photo by Fenja Brodo]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/brodo_sympetrum_internum-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='brodo_sympetrum_internum' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_2_green_lacewing.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_2_green_lacewing-480x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='33' title='Green Lacewing (Chrysopidae) on a Poaceae  inflorescence, photograph taken in Ste-Ang\u00e8le-de-Monnoir, QC. [photo by Guillaume Dury]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1286 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1286\"  data-avia-tooltip='Green Lacewing (Chrysopidae) on a Poaceae  inflorescence, photograph taken in Ste-Ang\u00e8le-de-Monnoir, QC. [photo by Guillaume Dury]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_2_green_lacewing-480x400.jpg' width='480' height='400'  title='dury_2_green_lacewing' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_3_fly_bubbling.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_3_fly_bubbling-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='34' title='Fly (Muscoidea) bubbling dark liquid food on a daylily (Hemerocallis), photograph taken in Ste-Ang\u00e8le-de-Monnoir, QC.  [photo by Guillaume Dury]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1287 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1287\"  data-avia-tooltip='Fly (Muscoidea) bubbling dark liquid food on a daylily (Hemerocallis), photograph taken in Ste-Ang\u00e8le-de-Monnoir, QC.  [photo by Guillaume Dury]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_3_fly_bubbling-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='dury_3_fly_bubbling' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_4_recently_hatched_bug_nymphs.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_4_recently_hatched_bug_nymphs-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='35' title='Group of 18 recently hatched true bug nymphs and their empty eggs, resting on the leaf of a plum tree (Prunus), photograph taken in Ste-Ang\u00e8le-de-Monnoir, QC. [photo by Guillaume Dury]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1288 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1288\"  data-avia-tooltip='Group of 18 recently hatched true bug nymphs and their empty eggs, resting on the leaf of a plum tree (Prunus), photograph taken in Ste-Ang\u00e8le-de-Monnoir, QC. [photo by Guillaume Dury]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_4_recently_hatched_bug_nymphs-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='dury_4_recently_hatched_bug_nymphs' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_5_phiddipus_regius.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_5_phiddipus_regius-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='36' title='Female Phiddipus regius, Lake Placid, FL, USA. [photo by Guillaume Dury]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1289 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1289\"  data-avia-tooltip='Female Phiddipus regius, Lake Placid, FL, USA. [photo by Guillaume Dury]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dury_5_phiddipus_regius-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='dury_5_phiddipus_regius' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_goldenrod_crab_spider.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_goldenrod_crab_spider-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='37' title='A Goldenrod Crab Spider waits for prey at the SFU Community Garden, July 22, 2013.  [photo by Sean McCann]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1290 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1290\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Goldenrod Crab Spider waits for prey at the SFU Community Garden, July 22, 2013.  [photo by Sean McCann]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_goldenrod_crab_spider-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='mccann_goldenrod_crab_spider' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_laphria.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_laphria-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='38' title='A Laphria robber fly perches on a twig. This photo was taken on Burnaby Mountain, July 4, 2013. Because it was early morning and the fly was still cold, it was easy to get some good shots.  [photo by Sean McCann]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1291 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1291\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Laphria robber fly perches on a twig. This photo was taken on Burnaby Mountain, July 4, 2013. Because it was early morning and the fly was still cold, it was easy to get some good shots.  [photo by Sean McCann]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_laphria-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='mccann_laphria' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_sinodendron_rugosum.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_sinodendron_rugosum-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='39' title='One of Canada&rsquo;s rare stag beetles, Sinodendron rugosum walks across the moss on Burnaby Mountain, July 31, 2013.    [photo by Sean McCann]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1292 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1292\"  data-avia-tooltip='One of Canada&rsquo;s rare stag beetles, Sinodendron rugosum walks across the moss on Burnaby Mountain, July 31, 2013.    [photo by Sean McCann]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mccann_sinodendron_rugosum-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='mccann_sinodendron_rugosum' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_crab_spider__bee_and_milichiidae.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_crab_spider__bee_and_milichiidae-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='40' title='Although this image was taken in Vietnam (Cat Ba Island), cleptoparatism by millichiid flies on bees killed by spiders also occurs in Canada.  [photo by Steven Paiero]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1293 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1293\"  data-avia-tooltip='Although this image was taken in Vietnam (Cat Ba Island), cleptoparatism by millichiid flies on bees killed by spiders also occurs in Canada.  [photo by Steven Paiero]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_crab_spider__bee_and_milichiidae-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='paiero_crab_spider__bee_and_milichiidae' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_fulgoridae_from_guyana.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_fulgoridae_from_guyana-478x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='41' title='This planthopper (Fulgoridae) was observed at night sitting on the base of a tree in Guyana.  [photo by Steven Paiero]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1294 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1294\"  data-avia-tooltip='This planthopper (Fulgoridae) was observed at night sitting on the base of a tree in Guyana.  [photo by Steven Paiero]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_fulgoridae_from_guyana-478x400.jpg' width='478' height='400'  title='paiero_fulgoridae_from_guyana' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_mate_guarding_by_neriidae.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_mate_guarding_by_neriidae-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='42' title='This ovipositing neriid female is being closely guarded by the male, who can be seen to the left keeping other potential suitors away (Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam.  [photo by Steven Paiero]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1295 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1295\"  data-avia-tooltip='This ovipositing neriid female is being closely guarded by the male, who can be seen to the left keeping other potential suitors away (Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam.  [photo by Steven Paiero]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_mate_guarding_by_neriidae-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='paiero_mate_guarding_by_neriidae' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_membracidae_from_guyana.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_membracidae_from_guyana-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='43' title='These treehoppers (Membracidae) were found along a small tree in Guyana being tended by ants (not shown).  [photo by Steven Paiero]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1296 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1296\"  data-avia-tooltip='These treehoppers (Membracidae) were found along a small tree in Guyana being tended by ants (not shown).  [photo by Steven Paiero]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_membracidae_from_guyana-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='paiero_membracidae_from_guyana' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_trigonopelastes_delta.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_trigonopelastes_delta-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='44' title='This Delta Flower Scarab (Trigonopelastes delta) was found sitting on goldenrod in South Carolina.  [photo by Steven Paiero]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1298 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1298\"  data-avia-tooltip='This Delta Flower Scarab (Trigonopelastes delta) was found sitting on goldenrod in South Carolina.  [photo by Steven Paiero]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paiero_trigonopelastes_delta-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='paiero_trigonopelastes_delta' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rempel_beetles_on_grain.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rempel_beetles_on_grain-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='45' title='These are some of the most common stored-grain insects found in Canada placed on wheat kernels, from left to right: granary weevil (Sitophilus granarius), confused flour beetle (Tribolium confusum), red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae), lesser grain borer (Rhyzopertha dominica), sawtoothed grain beetle (Oryzaephilus surinamensis), foreign grain beetle (Ahasverus advena) and  rusty grain beetle (Cryptolestes ferrugineus).  [photo by Zoe Rempel]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1299 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1299\"  data-avia-tooltip='These are some of the most common stored-grain insects found in Canada placed on wheat kernels, from left to right: granary weevil (Sitophilus granarius), confused flour beetle (Tribolium confusum), red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae), lesser grain borer (Rhyzopertha dominica), sawtoothed grain beetle (Oryzaephilus surinamensis), foreign grain beetle (Ahasverus advena) and  rusty grain beetle (Cryptolestes ferrugineus).  [photo by Zoe Rempel]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rempel_beetles_on_grain-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='rempel_beetles_on_grain' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rochefort_1__alberta_rockies.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rochefort_1__alberta_rockies-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='46' title='Location: Alberta in the Rockies. Identification: Coccinellidae. [photo by Sabrina Rochefort]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1300 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1300\"  data-avia-tooltip='Location: Alberta in the Rockies. Identification: Coccinellidae. [photo by Sabrina Rochefort]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rochefort_1__alberta_rockies-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='rochefort_1__alberta_rockies' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rochefort_3__alberta_near_grand_prairie.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rochefort_3__alberta_near_grand_prairie-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='47' title='Location: Alberta near Grande Prairie. Identification: Odonata, ?Aeshnidae. [photo by Sabrina Rochefort]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1301 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1301\"  data-avia-tooltip='Location: Alberta near Grande Prairie. Identification: Odonata, ?Aeshnidae. [photo by Sabrina Rochefort]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rochefort_3__alberta_near_grand_prairie-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='rochefort_3__alberta_near_grand_prairie' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rochefort_4__quebec_dundee__2_.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rochefort_4__quebec_dundee__2_-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='48' title='Location: R\u00e9serve faunique du Lac St-Fran\u00e7ois, Dundee, Quebec. Identification : Painted lady.  [photo by Sabrina Rochefort]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1302 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1302\"  data-avia-tooltip='Location: R\u00e9serve faunique du Lac St-Fran\u00e7ois, Dundee, Quebec. Identification : Painted lady.  [photo by Sabrina Rochefort]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rochefort_4__quebec_dundee__2_-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='rochefort_4__quebec_dundee__2_' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rochefort_5__quebec_st-louis-de-gonzague.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rochefort_5__quebec_st-louis-de-gonzague-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='49' title='Location : St-Louis-de-Gonzague, Quebec. Identification : Crane fly. [photo by Sabrina Rochefort]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1303 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1303\"  data-avia-tooltip='Location : St-Louis-de-Gonzague, Quebec. Identification : Crane fly. [photo by Sabrina Rochefort]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rochefort_5__quebec_st-louis-de-gonzague-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='rochefort_5__quebec_st-louis-de-gonzague' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_1chryestl.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_1chryestl-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='50' title='Milkweed leaf beetle (Labidomera clivicollis, Chrysomelidae) on Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria). Location: Lombardy, ON. [photo by Excedera St. Louis]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1297 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1297\"  data-avia-tooltip='Milkweed leaf beetle (Labidomera clivicollis, Chrysomelidae) on Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria). Location: Lombardy, ON. [photo by Excedera St. Louis]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_1chryestl-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='st_louis_1chryestl' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_2egrataestl.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_2egrataestl-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='51' title='Beautiful wood nymph (Eudryas grata, Noctuidae) caterpillar feeding on Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), not a common sight. Location: Hallville, ON.  [photo by Excedera St. Louis]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1304 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1304\"  data-avia-tooltip='Beautiful wood nymph (Eudryas grata, Noctuidae) caterpillar feeding on Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), not a common sight. Location: Hallville, ON.  [photo by Excedera St. Louis]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_2egrataestl-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='st_louis_2egrataestl' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_3lacewingestl.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_3lacewingestl-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='52' title='A lacewing larvae (Chrysopidae, Neuroptera) feeding on Purple loosestrife beetle (Galerucella calmariensis) eggs. Location: Westmeath, ON.  [photo by Excedera St. Louis]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1305 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1305\"  data-avia-tooltip='A lacewing larvae (Chrysopidae, Neuroptera) feeding on Purple loosestrife beetle (Galerucella calmariensis) eggs. Location: Westmeath, ON.  [photo by Excedera St. Louis]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_3lacewingestl-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='st_louis_3lacewingestl' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_4scaleestl.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_4scaleestl-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='53' title='Scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) on Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria). Location: Pakenham, ON. [photo by Excedera St. Louis]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1306 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1306\"  data-avia-tooltip='Scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) on Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria). Location: Pakenham, ON. [photo by Excedera St. Louis]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_4scaleestl-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='st_louis_4scaleestl' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_5tort1estl.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_5tort1estl-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='54' title='Unidentified leafrolling caterpillar (Tortricidae, Lepidoptera) on Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria). Location: Ottawa Valley, ON.  [photo by Excedera St. Louis]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1307 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1307\"  data-avia-tooltip='Unidentified leafrolling caterpillar (Tortricidae, Lepidoptera) on Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria). Location: Ottawa Valley, ON.  [photo by Excedera St. Louis]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/st_louis_5tort1estl-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='st_louis_5tort1estl' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_beefly.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_beefly-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='55' title='Hemipenthes sp. (Bombyliidae) &#8211; Bee Fly. Victoria BC, July 18, 2010.  [photo by Alan Thomson]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1308 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1308\"  data-avia-tooltip='Hemipenthes sp. (Bombyliidae) &#8211; Bee Fly. Victoria BC, July 18, 2010.  [photo by Alan Thomson]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_beefly-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='thomson_beefly' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_canadadarner.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_canadadarner-480x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='56' title='Aeshna canadensis Walker (Aeshnidae) &#8211; Canada Darner. Victoria BC, July 29, 2013.  [photo by Alan Thomson]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1309 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1309\"  data-avia-tooltip='Aeshna canadensis Walker (Aeshnidae) &#8211; Canada Darner. Victoria BC, July 29, 2013.  [photo by Alan Thomson]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_canadadarner-480x400.jpg' width='480' height='400'  title='thomson_canadadarner' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_lorquinsadmiral.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_lorquinsadmiral-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='57' title='Limenitis lorquini Boisduval (Nymphalidae) &#8211; Lorquin&rsquo;s Admiral. Victoria BC, July 4, 2013.  [photo by Alan Thomson]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1310 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1310\"  data-avia-tooltip='Limenitis lorquini Boisduval (Nymphalidae) &#8211; Lorquin&rsquo;s Admiral. Victoria BC, July 4, 2013.  [photo by Alan Thomson]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_lorquinsadmiral-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='thomson_lorquinsadmiral' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_muddauber.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_muddauber-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='58' title='Sceliphron caementarium (Drury) (Sphecidae) &#8211; Black and yellow mud dauber. Victoria BC, July 24, 2012.  [photo by Alan Thomson]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1311 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1311\"  data-avia-tooltip='Sceliphron caementarium (Drury) (Sphecidae) &#8211; Black and yellow mud dauber. Victoria BC, July 24, 2012.  [photo by Alan Thomson]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_muddauber-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='thomson_muddauber' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_syrphid.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_syrphid-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='59' title='Flower fly. Victoria BC, June 1, 2013.  [photo by Alan Thomson]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1312 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1312\"  data-avia-tooltip='Flower fly. Victoria BC, June 1, 2013.  [photo by Alan Thomson]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomson_syrphid-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='thomson_syrphid' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/vandervalk_leafcutter_on_sanfoin.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/vandervalk_leafcutter_on_sanfoin-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='60' title='A male alfalfa leafcutter bee (Megachile rotundata) resting on common sanfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) at the Lethbridge Research Farm.  Male leafcutters are easily distinguished from females by their highly reflective eyes.  [photo by Lynae Vandervalk]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1313 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1313\"  data-avia-tooltip='A male alfalfa leafcutter bee (Megachile rotundata) resting on common sanfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) at the Lethbridge Research Farm.  Male leafcutters are easily distinguished from females by their highly reflective eyes.  [photo by Lynae Vandervalk]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/vandervalk_leafcutter_on_sanfoin-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='vandervalk_leafcutter_on_sanfoin' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/white_1_ready_for_takeoff.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/white_1_ready_for_takeoff-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='61' title='Ready for Takeoff.  [photo by John White]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1317 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1317\"  data-avia-tooltip='Ready for Takeoff.  [photo by John White]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/white_1_ready_for_takeoff-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='white_1_ready_for_takeoff' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/white_2_sunbathing_katydid.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/white_2_sunbathing_katydid-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='62' title='Sunbathing Katydid.  [photo by John White]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1314 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1314\"  data-avia-tooltip='Sunbathing Katydid.  [photo by John White]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/white_2_sunbathing_katydid-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='white_2_sunbathing_katydid' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/white_4_hitching_a_ride.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/white_4_hitching_a_ride-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='63' title='Hitching a Ride.  [photo by John White]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1315 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1315\"  data-avia-tooltip='Hitching a Ride.  [photo by John White]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/white_4_hitching_a_ride-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='white_4_hitching_a_ride' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/white_5_airborne_operations.jpg' data-rel='gallery-4' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/white_5_airborne_operations-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='64' title=' Airborne Operations.  [photo by John White]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1316 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1316\"  data-avia-tooltip=' Airborne Operations.  [photo by John White]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/white_5_airborne_operations-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='white_5_airborne_operations' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h2  blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_gallery  el_before_av_gallery  '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Huiti\u00e8me concours annuel de photographie &#8211; 2012<\/h2><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='avia-gallery  avia-gallery-5 deactivate_avia_lazyload avia-gallery-animate avia_animate_when_visible  avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_heading '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class='avia-gallery-thumb'> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/54.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/54-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='1' title='Late stage pupae of the honey bee Apis mellifera L. dissected as part of a search for breeding varroa mite (none found).   Taken from a hive in the Gisborne area on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, March 2012.  [photo by John McLean]  '  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1371 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1371\"  data-avia-tooltip='Late stage pupae of the honey bee Apis mellifera L. dissected as part of a search for breeding varroa mite (none found).   Taken from a hive in the Gisborne area on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, March 2012.  [photo by John McLean]  ' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/54-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='54' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/16.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/16-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='2' title='A female Agapostemon sp. (Halictidae), foraging on fireweed in June on the UBC Okanagan (Kelowna) campus. [photo by Bob Lalonde]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1334 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1334\"  data-avia-tooltip='A female Agapostemon sp. (Halictidae), foraging on fireweed in June on the UBC Okanagan (Kelowna) campus. [photo by Bob Lalonde]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/16-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='16' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='3' title='Stinkbug eggs found on the foliage of lodgepole pine, Tappen BC. [photo by Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1342 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1342\"  data-avia-tooltip='Stinkbug eggs found on the foliage of lodgepole pine, Tappen BC. [photo by Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='20' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/36.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/36-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='4' title='Stratiomys badia \u2013 An impressive bee mimic, Stratiomys badia (Stratiomyidae) rests in a garden at dusk, in Chesterville, Ontario. [photo by Crystal Ernst] '  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1355 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1355\"  data-avia-tooltip='Stratiomys badia \u2013 An impressive bee mimic, Stratiomys badia (Stratiomyidae) rests in a garden at dusk, in Chesterville, Ontario. [photo by Crystal Ernst] ' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/36-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='36' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/40.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/40-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='5' title='Larva of Papilio machaon dodi (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), on Artemesia dracunculus, near Drumheller, AB. [photo by Julian Dupuis]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1360 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1360\"  data-avia-tooltip='Larva of Papilio machaon dodi (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), on Artemesia dracunculus, near Drumheller, AB. [photo by Julian Dupuis]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/40-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='40' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/30.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/30-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='6' title='Nymphs of Pachycoris klugii on Jatropha curcas tree (Tehuacan, Chiapas, Mexico). [photo by Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1343 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1343\"  data-avia-tooltip='Nymphs of Pachycoris klugii on Jatropha curcas tree (Tehuacan, Chiapas, Mexico). [photo by Tim Haye]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/30-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='30' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/08.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/08-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='7' title='A gravid female of the threatened Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae (Skinner) (Hesperiidae) perched on Yarrow,  Achillea millefolium (L.) (Asteracea) in a tallgrass prairie northeast of Deleau, Manitoba. [photo by Christa Rigney]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1326 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1326\"  data-avia-tooltip='A gravid female of the threatened Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae (Skinner) (Hesperiidae) perched on Yarrow,  Achillea millefolium (L.) (Asteracea) in a tallgrass prairie northeast of Deleau, Manitoba. [photo by Christa Rigney]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/08-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='08' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/37.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/37-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='8' title='Sweeping vegetation for terrestrial arthropods as part of the Northern Biodiversity Program survey during 2010.  The location is the Skeleton Creek Valley, located just above Lake Hazen on northern Ellesmere Island, and you can see Lake Hazen in the background.   Vegetation is particularly lush in these creek valleys, especially compared to surrounding tundra.   Students are (from left) Christine Roussel (UPEI), and Sarah Loboda and Meagan Blair (both from McGill). [photo by Donna Giberson]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1356 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1356\"  data-avia-tooltip='Sweeping vegetation for terrestrial arthropods as part of the Northern Biodiversity Program survey during 2010.  The location is the Skeleton Creek Valley, located just above Lake Hazen on northern Ellesmere Island, and you can see Lake Hazen in the background.   Vegetation is particularly lush in these creek valleys, especially compared to surrounding tundra.   Students are (from left) Christine Roussel (UPEI), and Sarah Loboda and Meagan Blair (both from McGill). [photo by Donna Giberson]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/37-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='37' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/03.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/03-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='9' title='Jamie McKeen collecting parasitoids of the cabbage seedpod weevil (Ceutorhynchus obstrictus) (Ligni\u00e8res, Switzerland). [photo by Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1321 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1321\"  data-avia-tooltip='Jamie McKeen collecting parasitoids of the cabbage seedpod weevil (Ceutorhynchus obstrictus) (Ligni\u00e8res, Switzerland). [photo by Tim Haye]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/03-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='03' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/07.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/07-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='10' title='Llewellyn Haines and Dan Peach sweeping a canola field for parasitoids of the cabbage seedpod weevil (Courroux, Canton Jura, Switzerland). [photo by Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1325 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1325\"  data-avia-tooltip='Llewellyn Haines and Dan Peach sweeping a canola field for parasitoids of the cabbage seedpod weevil (Courroux, Canton Jura, Switzerland). [photo by Tim Haye]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/07-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='07' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/18.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/18-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='11' title='\u00ab\u00a0Bulls-eye rash\u00a0\u00bb (a typical early symptom of Lyme borreliosis) on the upper arm of R.G. Bennett, June 2012. Two embedded specimens of the primary Lyme vector in eastern North America, Ixodes scapularis Say (Acari: Ixodidae), had been removed about two weeks prior. Exposure to ticks occurred in Murphy Point Provincial Park (Lanark Co., Ontario). [photo by J. A. Terpenning]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1336 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1336\"  data-avia-tooltip='\u00ab\u00a0Bulls-eye rash\u00a0\u00bb (a typical early symptom of Lyme borreliosis) on the upper arm of R.G. Bennett, June 2012. Two embedded specimens of the primary Lyme vector in eastern North America, Ixodes scapularis Say (Acari: Ixodidae), had been removed about two weeks prior. Exposure to ticks occurred in Murphy Point Provincial Park (Lanark Co., Ontario). [photo by J. A. Terpenning]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/18-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='18' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/39.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/39-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='12' title='A truck load of honey bee colonies to pollinate low bush blueberries.  This was one of at least 30 similar trailers in the area,  with more colonies on pallets.  Taken in Collingwood Corner, Nova Scotia, June 17th, 2011.  [photo by Megan Colwell]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1354 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1354\"  data-avia-tooltip='A truck load of honey bee colonies to pollinate low bush blueberries.  This was one of at least 30 similar trailers in the area,  with more colonies on pallets.  Taken in Collingwood Corner, Nova Scotia, June 17th, 2011.  [photo by Megan Colwell]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/39-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='39' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/01.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/01-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='13' title='Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) enjoying a nice cold can of cleansing ale, at Fishcreek Provincial Park, Calgary, Alberta. [photo by Robert Bercha]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1319 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1319\"  data-avia-tooltip='Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) enjoying a nice cold can of cleansing ale, at Fishcreek Provincial Park, Calgary, Alberta. [photo by Robert Bercha]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/01-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='01' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/02.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/02-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='14' title='Two weevils hang out on the leaf of a wild lupine, Vernon BC. [photo by Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1320 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1320\"  data-avia-tooltip='Two weevils hang out on the leaf of a wild lupine, Vernon BC. [photo by Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/02-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='02' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/68.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/68-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='15' title='Preparing to sweep vegetation for terrestrial arthropods as part of the Northern Biodiversity Program survey during 2010.   The location is just south of the Ruggles River, as it flows out of Lake Hazen on northern Ellesmere Island.   Sarah Loboda (left) and Meagan Blair (right) are the students, both from McGill.   [photo by Donna Giberson]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1385 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1385\"  data-avia-tooltip='Preparing to sweep vegetation for terrestrial arthropods as part of the Northern Biodiversity Program survey during 2010.   The location is just south of the Ruggles River, as it flows out of Lake Hazen on northern Ellesmere Island.   Sarah Loboda (left) and Meagan Blair (right) are the students, both from McGill.   [photo by Donna Giberson]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/68-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='68' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/04.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/04-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='16' title='A bumble bee, Bombus sp. (Hymenoptera: Apidae), rescued from a decorative pond in Jena, Germany. Within a few minutes it had dried off enough to fly away. [photo by Colin MacKay]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1322 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1322\"  data-avia-tooltip='A bumble bee, Bombus sp. (Hymenoptera: Apidae), rescued from a decorative pond in Jena, Germany. Within a few minutes it had dried off enough to fly away. [photo by Colin MacKay]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/04-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='04' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/05.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/05-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='17' title='Early spring activity at UNESCO World Heritage Site Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. The culmination of a successful scavenging expedition,  for several Western Thatching Ants (Formica obscuripes), is a mummified caterpillar being dragged back to the nest. [photo by Robert Bercha]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1323 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1323\"  data-avia-tooltip='Early spring activity at UNESCO World Heritage Site Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. The culmination of a successful scavenging expedition,  for several Western Thatching Ants (Formica obscuripes), is a mummified caterpillar being dragged back to the nest. [photo by Robert Bercha]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/05-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='SONY DSC' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/06.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/06-421x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='18' title='A monarch butterfly larva, Danaus plexippus, succumbs to a probable nuclear polyhedrosis virus infection on its host plant,  swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (July 18th 2012). [Tyler Wist]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1324 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1324\"  data-avia-tooltip='A monarch butterfly larva, Danaus plexippus, succumbs to a probable nuclear polyhedrosis virus infection on its host plant,  swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (July 18th 2012). [Tyler Wist]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/06-421x400.jpg' width='421' height='400'  title='06' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/09.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/09-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='19' title='A lateral view of the drone pupae of Apis mellifera L. Note the orientation of the late stage pupae in their cells. They are all facing upward, i.e. they are lying on their backs in their cells. Sample collected in Gisborne, New Zealand, March 2012. [photo by John McLean]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1327 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1327\"  data-avia-tooltip='A lateral view of the drone pupae of Apis mellifera L. Note the orientation of the late stage pupae in their cells. They are all facing upward, i.e. they are lying on their backs in their cells. Sample collected in Gisborne, New Zealand, March 2012. [photo by John McLean]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/09-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='09' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/10.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/10-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='20' title='Honeybee and flower in the Italian Dolomites, San Vito di Cadore, 2 September 2009. [photo by Jon Sweeney]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1328 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1328\"  data-avia-tooltip='Honeybee and flower in the Italian Dolomites, San Vito di Cadore, 2 September 2009. [photo by Jon Sweeney]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/10-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='10' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='21' title='A female Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae (Skinner) (Hesperiidae) nectaring upon its preferred nectar plant,  Black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta (L.) (Asteracea) in a tallgrass prairie northeast of Deleau, Manitoba. [photo by Christa Rigney]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1329 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1329\"  data-avia-tooltip='A female Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae (Skinner) (Hesperiidae) nectaring upon its preferred nectar plant,  Black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta (L.) (Asteracea) in a tallgrass prairie northeast of Deleau, Manitoba. [photo by Christa Rigney]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='11' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='22' title='Apis mellifera, the European honeybee foraging on white clover.  Photographed with natural light in October at the UBC Okanagan (Kelowna) campus. [photo by Bob Lalonde]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1330 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1330\"  data-avia-tooltip='Apis mellifera, the European honeybee foraging on white clover.  Photographed with natural light in October at the UBC Okanagan (Kelowna) campus. [photo by Bob Lalonde]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='12' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='23' title='Papilio machaon x P. zelicaon hybrid (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), near Swan Hills, AB. [photo by Julian Dupuis]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1331 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1331\"  data-avia-tooltip='Papilio machaon x P. zelicaon hybrid (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), near Swan Hills, AB. [photo by Julian Dupuis]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='13' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='24' title='Katydid from Barro Colorado Island, Panama- taken at night in March 18, 2012, on a visit to Smithsonian facilities to develop  a tropical ecology field school for SFU. It appears that she has recently mated. [photo by Bernie Roitberg]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1332 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1332\"  data-avia-tooltip='Katydid from Barro Colorado Island, Panama- taken at night in March 18, 2012, on a visit to Smithsonian facilities to develop  a tropical ecology field school for SFU. It appears that she has recently mated. [photo by Bernie Roitberg]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='14' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/17.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/17-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='25' title='Eris militaris \u2013 Laboratory-reared male and female Eris militaris (Salticidae) in copula after an impressive mating dance,  photographed at McGill University, Quebec. [photo by Crystal Ernst]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1335 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1335\"  data-avia-tooltip='Eris militaris \u2013 Laboratory-reared male and female Eris militaris (Salticidae) in copula after an impressive mating dance,  photographed at McGill University, Quebec. [photo by Crystal Ernst]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/17-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='17' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='26' title='A female Forficula auricularia tends her egg clutch in a soil cavity under a dead log, Vernon, BC. [photo by Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1333 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1333\"  data-avia-tooltip='A female Forficula auricularia tends her egg clutch in a soil cavity under a dead log, Vernon, BC. [photo by Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='15' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/19.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/19-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='27' title='Leaf cutter ant, taken during the day in March 18, 2012, on a visit to Smithsonian facilities to develop  a tropical ecology field school for SFU on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. [photo by Bernie Roitberg]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1341 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1341\"  data-avia-tooltip='Leaf cutter ant, taken during the day in March 18, 2012, on a visit to Smithsonian facilities to develop  a tropical ecology field school for SFU on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. [photo by Bernie Roitberg]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/19-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='19' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/21.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/21-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='28' title='Newly emerged nymphs of brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, an invasive species in Canada (photo taken at Beijing, China). [photo by Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1344 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1344\"  data-avia-tooltip='Newly emerged nymphs of brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, an invasive species in Canada (photo taken at Beijing, China). [photo by Tim Haye]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/21-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='21' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/22.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/22-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='29' title='Female camel cricket Ceuthophilus brevipes (Family Rhaphidophoridae; Order Orthoptera), photographed near Sheguiandah on Manitoulin Island in Ontario on September 6, 2011. It was found under large limestone rocks. They are also found in caves, under logs and in dark moist places. Camel crickets feed on dead and dying invertebrates or decaying plant material. [photo by Joe Shorthouse]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1337 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1337\"  data-avia-tooltip='Female camel cricket Ceuthophilus brevipes (Family Rhaphidophoridae; Order Orthoptera), photographed near Sheguiandah on Manitoulin Island in Ontario on September 6, 2011. It was found under large limestone rocks. They are also found in caves, under logs and in dark moist places. Camel crickets feed on dead and dying invertebrates or decaying plant material. [photo by Joe Shorthouse]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/22-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='22' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/23.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/23-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='30' title='A Bush Katydid, Scudderia sp. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), found walking along the deck in Denver, N.S. [photo by Colin MacKay]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1338 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1338\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Bush Katydid, Scudderia sp. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), found walking along the deck in Denver, N.S. [photo by Colin MacKay]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/23-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='23' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/24.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/24-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='31' title='Evidence of predation by a northern crab spider, Misumenops asperatus (Hentz), on the threatened Dakota skipper,  Hesperia dacotae (Skinner) (Hesperiidae) upon Blanket Flower, Gaillardia aristata (Pursh) (Asteracea) near Deleau, Manitoba. [photo by Christa Rigney]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1339 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1339\"  data-avia-tooltip='Evidence of predation by a northern crab spider, Misumenops asperatus (Hentz), on the threatened Dakota skipper,  Hesperia dacotae (Skinner) (Hesperiidae) upon Blanket Flower, Gaillardia aristata (Pursh) (Asteracea) near Deleau, Manitoba. [photo by Christa Rigney]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/24-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='24' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/25.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/25-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='32' title='A first instar larvae of the threatened Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae (Skinner) (Hesperiidae) hatched from eggs from Deleau, Manitoba.  Larva are exceptionally difficult to locate, and this is likely the first time this species\u2019 larva have been well photographed. [photo by Christa Rigney]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1340 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1340\"  data-avia-tooltip='A first instar larvae of the threatened Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae (Skinner) (Hesperiidae) hatched from eggs from Deleau, Manitoba.  Larva are exceptionally difficult to locate, and this is likely the first time this species\u2019 larva have been well photographed. [photo by Christa Rigney]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/25-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='25' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/27.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/27-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='33' title='Unknown Orthopteran, taken during the day in March 18, 2012, on a visit to Smithsonian facilities to develop  a tropical ecology field school for SFU on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. [photo by Bernie Roitberg]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1345 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1345\"  data-avia-tooltip='Unknown Orthopteran, taken during the day in March 18, 2012, on a visit to Smithsonian facilities to develop  a tropical ecology field school for SFU on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. [photo by Bernie Roitberg]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/27-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='27' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/28.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/28-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='34' title='Jumping Pound Loop, Kananaskis, Alberta.  A Flower longhorn (Judolia montivagans) enjoys a light snack of Strawberry pollen. [photo by Robert Bercha]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1346 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1346\"  data-avia-tooltip='Jumping Pound Loop, Kananaskis, Alberta.  A Flower longhorn (Judolia montivagans) enjoys a light snack of Strawberry pollen. [photo by Robert Bercha]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/28-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='28' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/29.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/29-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='35' title='A Long Dash skipper, Polites mystic (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), caught with a butterfly net in Denver, N.S. [photo by Colin MacKay]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1347 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1347\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Long Dash skipper, Polites mystic (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), caught with a butterfly net in Denver, N.S. [photo by Colin MacKay]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/29-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='29' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/31.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/31-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='36' title='Pollen foraging ant, taken in Dave Gillespie&rsquo;s garden, Chilliwack, BC, on June 6, 2012. [photo by Bernie Roitberg]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1348 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1348\"  data-avia-tooltip='Pollen foraging ant, taken in Dave Gillespie&rsquo;s garden, Chilliwack, BC, on June 6, 2012. [photo by Bernie Roitberg]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/31-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='31' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/32.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/32-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='37' title='A Red-shouldered Pine Borer, Stictoleptura canadensis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), that landed in a campsite in Ingonish, N.S. [photo by Colin MacKay]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1349 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1349\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Red-shouldered Pine Borer, Stictoleptura canadensis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), that landed in a campsite in Ingonish, N.S. [photo by Colin MacKay]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/32-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='32' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/33.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/33-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='38' title='Female camel cricket Ceuthophilus brevipes (Family Rhaphidophoridae; Order Orthoptera), photographed near Sheguiandah on Manitoulin  Island in Ontario on September 6, 2011. It was found under large limestone rocks. They are also found in caves, under logs and in dark moist places. Camel crickets feed on dead and dying invertebrates or decaying plant material. [photo by Joe Shorthouse]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1350 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1350\"  data-avia-tooltip='Female camel cricket Ceuthophilus brevipes (Family Rhaphidophoridae; Order Orthoptera), photographed near Sheguiandah on Manitoulin  Island in Ontario on September 6, 2011. It was found under large limestone rocks. They are also found in caves, under logs and in dark moist places. Camel crickets feed on dead and dying invertebrates or decaying plant material. [photo by Joe Shorthouse]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/33-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='33' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/34.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/34-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='39' title='Bombus ternarius and Coccinella septempunctata  on Lupins at Blooming Point, Prince Edward Island;  observed while walking along the coastal grasslands just south of the blooming point dunes.  [photo by Donna Giberson]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1351 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1351\"  data-avia-tooltip='Bombus ternarius and Coccinella septempunctata  on Lupins at Blooming Point, Prince Edward Island;  observed while walking along the coastal grasslands just south of the blooming point dunes.  [photo by Donna Giberson]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/34-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='34' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/35.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/35-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='40' title='Frontal view of a monarch butterfly larva, Danaus plexippus, as it feeds on its host plant,  swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (July 2012). [photo by Tyler Wist]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1352 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1352\"  data-avia-tooltip='Frontal view of a monarch butterfly larva, Danaus plexippus, as it feeds on its host plant,  swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (July 2012). [photo by Tyler Wist]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/35-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='35' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/38.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/38-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='41' title='A pair of ground beetles collected in the summer of 2010 in Great Village, Nova Scotia.  Pinned and photographed February 24th, 2011. [photo by Megan Colwell]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1353 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1353\"  data-avia-tooltip='A pair of ground beetles collected in the summer of 2010 in Great Village, Nova Scotia.  Pinned and photographed February 24th, 2011. [photo by Megan Colwell]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/38-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='38' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/41.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/41-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='42' title='Two honey bees with full pollen baskets, standing on a pollen trap of goldenrod pollen.  Pollen was collected for a  honey bee nutrition and pesticide research project.  At Five Islands, Nova Scotia, August 18th, 2011. [photo by Megan Colwell]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1361 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1361\"  data-avia-tooltip='Two honey bees with full pollen baskets, standing on a pollen trap of goldenrod pollen.  Pollen was collected for a  honey bee nutrition and pesticide research project.  At Five Islands, Nova Scotia, August 18th, 2011. [photo by Megan Colwell]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/41-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='41' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/45.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/45-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='43' title='A male Luna Moth, Actias luna (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) attracted to the light inside a cotttage in Denver, N.S. [photo by Colin MacKay]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1364 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1364\"  data-avia-tooltip='A male Luna Moth, Actias luna (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) attracted to the light inside a cotttage in Denver, N.S. [photo by Colin MacKay]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/45-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='45' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/42.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/42-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='44' title='Unknown dipteran parasitized by mites, taken in the Fortuna cloud forest, Panama, March 20, 2012. [photo by Bernie Roitberg]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1357 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1357\"  data-avia-tooltip='Unknown dipteran parasitized by mites, taken in the Fortuna cloud forest, Panama, March 20, 2012. [photo by Bernie Roitberg]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/42-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='42' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/43.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/43-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='45' title='This Libellula lydia (Odonata: Libellulidae) was spotted on Mont-St-Hilaire, QC, having just caught a meal. [photo by Christine Barrie]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1358 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1358\"  data-avia-tooltip='This Libellula lydia (Odonata: Libellulidae) was spotted on Mont-St-Hilaire, QC, having just caught a meal. [photo by Christine Barrie]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/43-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='43' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/44.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/44-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='46' title='Acrosternum hilare (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) holding onto blade of grass in Stoneycroft, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC.  [photo by Christine Barrie]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1359 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1359\"  data-avia-tooltip='Acrosternum hilare (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) holding onto blade of grass in Stoneycroft, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC.  [photo by Christine Barrie]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/44-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='44' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/47.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/47-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='47' title='Leptoglossus occidentalis (the bug, Coreidae) and a male Agapostemon (the bee, Halictidae) hanging out on Aster sp. in the fall  (early October) on the UBC Okanagan (Kelowna) campus. Leptoglossus feed on the seed cones of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir. [photo by Bob Lalonde]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1362 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1362\"  data-avia-tooltip='Leptoglossus occidentalis (the bug, Coreidae) and a male Agapostemon (the bee, Halictidae) hanging out on Aster sp. in the fall  (early October) on the UBC Okanagan (Kelowna) campus. Leptoglossus feed on the seed cones of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir. [photo by Bob Lalonde]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/47-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='47' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/46.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/46-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='48' title='A beautiful Fire-rim Tortoise Shell (Aglais milberti) nectaring, Cobble Flats, Kananaskis, Alberta.  This one is a member of the second generation present in Alberta from August to September. [photo by Robert Bercha]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1365 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1365\"  data-avia-tooltip='A beautiful Fire-rim Tortoise Shell (Aglais milberti) nectaring, Cobble Flats, Kananaskis, Alberta.  This one is a member of the second generation present in Alberta from August to September. [photo by Robert Bercha]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/46-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='SONY DSC' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/48.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/48-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='49' title='A male forked fungus beetle, Bolitotherus cornutus (Tenebrionidae) displays his ornately haired horns as he lumbers over a piece of bark at Bon Echo Provincial Park, Ontario. [photo by Crystal Ernst]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1363 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1363\"  data-avia-tooltip='A male forked fungus beetle, Bolitotherus cornutus (Tenebrionidae) displays his ornately haired horns as he lumbers over a piece of bark at Bon Echo Provincial Park, Ontario. [photo by Crystal Ernst]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/48-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='48' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/49.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/49-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='50' title='This Elegant Weevil, Pachyrhinus elegans, was found crawling on Western White Pine foliage. Vernon, BC. [photo by Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1366 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1366\"  data-avia-tooltip='This Elegant Weevil, Pachyrhinus elegans, was found crawling on Western White Pine foliage. Vernon, BC. [photo by Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/49-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='49' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/50.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/50-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='51' title='A giant cicada on a black light sheet in the morning.  At Las Cuevas Research Station, Belize, May 5th, 2011. [photo by Megan Colwell]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1367 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1367\"  data-avia-tooltip='A giant cicada on a black light sheet in the morning.  At Las Cuevas Research Station, Belize, May 5th, 2011. [photo by Megan Colwell]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/50-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='50' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/51.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/51-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='52' title='A Polygonia interrogationis (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) displays its namesake silvered question mark in \u00celes-de-Boucherville, QC. [photo by Christine Barrie]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1368 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1368\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Polygonia interrogationis (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) displays its namesake silvered question mark in \u00celes-de-Boucherville, QC. [photo by Christine Barrie]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/51-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='51' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/52.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/52-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='53' title='Ventral view of the head and forelegs of a centipede. Vernon, BC. [photo by Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1369 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1369\"  data-avia-tooltip='Ventral view of the head and forelegs of a centipede. Vernon, BC. [photo by Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/52-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='52' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/53.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/53-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='54' title='Bombus worker foraging on white clover. Photographed with natural light in October at the UBC Okanagan (Kelowna) campus. [photo by Bob Lalonde]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1370 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1370\"  data-avia-tooltip='Bombus worker foraging on white clover. Photographed with natural light in October at the UBC Okanagan (Kelowna) campus. [photo by Bob Lalonde]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/53-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='53' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/55.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/55-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='55' title='Bombus worker foraging on white clover. Photographed with natural light in October at the UBC Okanagan (Kelowna) campus. [photo by Bob Lalonde]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1372 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1372\"  data-avia-tooltip='Bombus worker foraging on white clover. Photographed with natural light in October at the UBC Okanagan (Kelowna) campus. [photo by Bob Lalonde]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/55-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='55' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/56.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/56-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='56' title='A wasp mantidfly, Climaciella brunnea (Mantispidae), collected and photographed in Chesterville, Ontario. [photo by Crystal Ernst]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1373 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1373\"  data-avia-tooltip='A wasp mantidfly, Climaciella brunnea (Mantispidae), collected and photographed in Chesterville, Ontario. [photo by Crystal Ernst]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/56-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='56' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/57.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/57-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='57' title='A Lygaeus kalmii (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) climbs flowers in Terra Cotta Park, Pointe Claire, QC.  [photo by Christine Barrie]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1374 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1374\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Lygaeus kalmii (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) climbs flowers in Terra Cotta Park, Pointe Claire, QC.  [photo by Christine Barrie]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/57-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='57' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/58.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/58-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='58' title='A giant katydid laying eggs on a black light sheet during the night.  At Las Cuevas Research Station, Belize, April 30th, 2011. [photo by Megan Colwell]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1376 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1376\"  data-avia-tooltip='A giant katydid laying eggs on a black light sheet during the night.  At Las Cuevas Research Station, Belize, April 30th, 2011. [photo by Megan Colwell]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/58-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='58' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/59.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/59-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='59' title='Two Popillia japonica (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) enjoy the shade in a suburban backyard in Pointe Claire, QC. [photo by Christine Barrie]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1377 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1377\"  data-avia-tooltip='Two Popillia japonica (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) enjoy the shade in a suburban backyard in Pointe Claire, QC. [photo by Christine Barrie]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/59-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='59' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/60.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/60-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='60' title='Two second instar monarch butterfly larvae, Danaus plexippus, decimate their host plant,  swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (June 2012). [photo by Tyler Wist]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1375 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1375\"  data-avia-tooltip='Two second instar monarch butterfly larvae, Danaus plexippus, decimate their host plant,  swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (June 2012). [photo by Tyler Wist]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/60-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='60' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/61.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/61-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='61' title='A female pseudoscorpion (Wyochernes asiaticus) carries a bright yellow egg mass on her abdomen.  This Beringian species was collected from James Creek, Yukon Territory, and photographed later at camp. [photo by Crystal Ernst]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1379 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1379\"  data-avia-tooltip='A female pseudoscorpion (Wyochernes asiaticus) carries a bright yellow egg mass on her abdomen.  This Beringian species was collected from James Creek, Yukon Territory, and photographed later at camp. [photo by Crystal Ernst]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/61-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='61' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/62.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/62-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='62' title='A fresh female Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae (Skinner) (Hesperiidae) displaying the  distinct markings on the wings to identify this Threatened species, near Deleau, Manitoba. [photo by Christa Rigney]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1380 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1380\"  data-avia-tooltip='A fresh female Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae (Skinner) (Hesperiidae) displaying the  distinct markings on the wings to identify this Threatened species, near Deleau, Manitoba. [photo by Christa Rigney]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/62-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='62' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/63.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/63-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='63' title='Cicindela  (probably hirticollis) mating pair on beach at Blooming Point, Prince Edward Island; observed while walking on the beach,  near the rotting carcass of a large harbour seal.  Beetles tentatively identified from the photographs by John Acorn. [photo by Donna Giberson]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1378 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1378\"  data-avia-tooltip='Cicindela  (probably hirticollis) mating pair on beach at Blooming Point, Prince Edward Island; observed while walking on the beach,  near the rotting carcass of a large harbour seal.  Beetles tentatively identified from the photographs by John Acorn. [photo by Donna Giberson]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/63-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='63' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/64.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/64-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='64' title='Stalked eggs of green lacewing (Chrysopa sp. [Chrysopidae: Neuroptera]) on underside of cauliflower leaf. Grasswood, Saskatchewan. [photo by Cedric Gillott]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1381 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1381\"  data-avia-tooltip='Stalked eggs of green lacewing (Chrysopa sp. [Chrysopidae: Neuroptera]) on underside of cauliflower leaf. Grasswood, Saskatchewan. [photo by Cedric Gillott]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/64-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='64' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/65.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/65-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='65' title='A Red Flat Bark Beetle (Cucujus clavipes) larva found under the bark of a  dead Cottonwood tree near the Elbow River in the Weaselhead, Calgary, Alberta. [photo by Robert Bercha]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1382 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1382\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Red Flat Bark Beetle (Cucujus clavipes) larva found under the bark of a  dead Cottonwood tree near the Elbow River in the Weaselhead, Calgary, Alberta. [photo by Robert Bercha]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/65-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='SONY DSC' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/66.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/66-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='66' title='Papilio machaon pikei (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), laboratory-reared on Artemesia dracunculus,  collected from near Taylor, BC. Attempting phoresy on a flannel shirt. [photo by Julian Dupuis]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1383 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1383\"  data-avia-tooltip='Papilio machaon pikei (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), laboratory-reared on Artemesia dracunculus,  collected from near Taylor, BC. Attempting phoresy on a flannel shirt. [photo by Julian Dupuis]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/66-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='66' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/67.jpg' data-rel='gallery-5' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/67-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='67' title='Podisus sp. (likely brevispinus) mating and feeding on a larch casebearer larva, May 2012, Nova Scotia. Identified by Geoff Scudder, from the photo by Jon Sweeney. [photo by Jon Sweeney]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1384 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1384\"  data-avia-tooltip='Podisus sp. (likely brevispinus) mating and feeding on a larch casebearer larva, May 2012, Nova Scotia. Identified by Geoff Scudder, from the photo by Jon Sweeney. [photo by Jon Sweeney]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/67-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='67' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h2  blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_gallery  el_before_av_gallery  '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Septi\u00e8me concours annuel de photographie &#8211; 2011<\/h2><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='avia-gallery  avia-gallery-6 deactivate_avia_lazyload avia-gallery-animate avia_animate_when_visible  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_heading '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class='avia-gallery-thumb'> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/02-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/02-1-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='1' title='A Medetera aldrichii Wheeler larva (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in a pre-pupal cell of a Douglas-fir beetle larva. Larvae of this fly prey on earlier  stages of this bark beetle; it has been placed here for comparative purposes. The larvae of both the beetle and the fly are mature and no longer feeding. They have evacuated their guts in preparation for synchronous pupation. Idaho.  [Photo by Malcolm Furniss]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1388 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1388\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Medetera aldrichii Wheeler larva (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in a pre-pupal cell of a Douglas-fir beetle larva. Larvae of this fly prey on earlier  stages of this bark beetle; it has been placed here for comparative purposes. The larvae of both the beetle and the fly are mature and no longer feeding. They have evacuated their guts in preparation for synchronous pupation. Idaho.  [Photo by Malcolm Furniss]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/02-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='02' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/01-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/01-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='2' title='The Manual of Nearctic Diptera coordinators with German dipterist Willi Hennig, during his visit to the Diptera Unit of the Canadian National Collection of Insects (Ottawa) in the fall of 1967.  Back, left to right: Frank McAlpine, Herb Teskey, Guy Shewell; front, left to right: Monty Wood, Dick Vockeroth, Bobbie Peterson, Willi Hennig.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1387 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1387\"  data-avia-tooltip='The Manual of Nearctic Diptera coordinators with German dipterist Willi Hennig, during his visit to the Diptera Unit of the Canadian National Collection of Insects (Ottawa) in the fall of 1967.  Back, left to right: Frank McAlpine, Herb Teskey, Guy Shewell; front, left to right: Monty Wood, Dick Vockeroth, Bobbie Peterson, Willi Hennig.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/01-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='01' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/03-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/03-1-456x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='3' title='Galleries of the Douglas-fir beetle, Dendroctonus pseudotsugae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), displayed by the late Dick Schmitz.  The tree had been felled by wind; however, the high density of egg galleries exposed here on the inner bark indicates that the tree may  have been infested while standing. Galleries in trees that have been felled by wind before being infested tend to occur on the shaded,  downward, side of the trunk and average only one-third the density at which live trees are infested. Idaho. [Photo by Malcolm Furniss]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1389 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1389\"  data-avia-tooltip='Galleries of the Douglas-fir beetle, Dendroctonus pseudotsugae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), displayed by the late Dick Schmitz.  The tree had been felled by wind; however, the high density of egg galleries exposed here on the inner bark indicates that the tree may  have been infested while standing. Galleries in trees that have been felled by wind before being infested tend to occur on the shaded,  downward, side of the trunk and average only one-third the density at which live trees are infested. Idaho. [Photo by Malcolm Furniss]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/03-1-456x400.jpg' width='456' height='400'  title='03' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/04-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/04-1-461x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='4' title='A Syrphid fly, probably Eristalis tenax (Linn.), covered with pollen acquired during visits to willow catkins. It has been introduced into North America and is widely established. E. tenax is commonly referred to as the drone fly due to its resemblance to the honey bee. Larvae of E. tenax inhabit organically polluted water; they are called rat-tailed maggots due to their long breathing tube, which extends to the surface. Idaho. [Photo by Malcolm Furniss]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1390 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1390\"  data-avia-tooltip='A Syrphid fly, probably Eristalis tenax (Linn.), covered with pollen acquired during visits to willow catkins. It has been introduced into North America and is widely established. E. tenax is commonly referred to as the drone fly due to its resemblance to the honey bee. Larvae of E. tenax inhabit organically polluted water; they are called rat-tailed maggots due to their long breathing tube, which extends to the surface. Idaho. [Photo by Malcolm Furniss]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/04-1-461x400.jpg' width='461' height='400'  title='04' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/05-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/05-1-467x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='5' title='A northern tent caterpillar (Livr\u00e9e du nord), Malacosoma californicum pluviale (Dyar), killed by a native nuclear polyhedrosis virus.  As exemplified here, the condition is commonly known as \u201chang-down disease\u201d. Soon, the exoskeleton will burst, releasing the virus to be ingested by other larvae and contributing to the characteristic dramatic collapse of outbreak populations.  Idaho. [Photo by Malcolm Furniss]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1391 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1391\"  data-avia-tooltip='A northern tent caterpillar (Livr\u00e9e du nord), Malacosoma californicum pluviale (Dyar), killed by a native nuclear polyhedrosis virus.  As exemplified here, the condition is commonly known as \u201chang-down disease\u201d. Soon, the exoskeleton will burst, releasing the virus to be ingested by other larvae and contributing to the characteristic dramatic collapse of outbreak populations.  Idaho. [Photo by Malcolm Furniss]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/05-1-467x400.jpg' width='467' height='400'  title='05' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/06-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/06-1-467x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='6' title='Female willow beaked-gall midge, Mayetiola (= Phytophaga)  rigidae (Osten Saken), emerged in spring from a willow gall. She will lay an egg near a developing bud and the hatched larva will enter the bud to form a gall in which it will overwinter. Idaho. [Photo by Malcolm Furniss]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1392 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1392\"  data-avia-tooltip='Female willow beaked-gall midge, Mayetiola (= Phytophaga)  rigidae (Osten Saken), emerged in spring from a willow gall. She will lay an egg near a developing bud and the hatched larva will enter the bud to form a gall in which it will overwinter. Idaho. [Photo by Malcolm Furniss]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/06-1-467x400.jpg' width='467' height='400'  title='06' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/07-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/07-1-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='7' title='Goldenrod Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) eating a fly on a daisy in Denver, Nova Scotia. [Photo by Malcolm Furniss]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1393 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1393\"  data-avia-tooltip='Goldenrod Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) eating a fly on a daisy in Denver, Nova Scotia. [Photo by Malcolm Furniss]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/07-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='07' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/08-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/08-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='8' title='Goldenrod Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) laying in wait on a daisy in Denver, Nova Scotia. [Photo by Colin MacKay]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1394 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1394\"  data-avia-tooltip='Goldenrod Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) laying in wait on a daisy in Denver, Nova Scotia. [Photo by Colin MacKay]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/08-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='08' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/09-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/09-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='9' title='Dragonfly mid-emergence on a lake shore in Denver, Nova Scotia. [Photo by Colin MacKay]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1395 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1395\"  data-avia-tooltip='Dragonfly mid-emergence on a lake shore in Denver, Nova Scotia. [Photo by Colin MacKay]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/09-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='09' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/10-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/10-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='10' title='Recently emerged dragonfly with exuvia visible in background as well as an inchworm on the adjacent leaf, Denver, Nova Scotia. [Photo by Colin MacKay]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1396 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1396\"  data-avia-tooltip='Recently emerged dragonfly with exuvia visible in background as well as an inchworm on the adjacent leaf, Denver, Nova Scotia. [Photo by Colin MacKay]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/10-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='10' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='11' title='A net-winged beetle, Caenia dimidiata, found on a blade of grass in Fredericton, New Brunswick. [Photo by Colin MacKay]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1397 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1397\"  data-avia-tooltip='A net-winged beetle, Caenia dimidiata, found on a blade of grass in Fredericton, New Brunswick. [Photo by Colin MacKay]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/11-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='11' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='12' title='A soldier fly, Caloparyphus decemmaculatus (Osten Sacken) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae); New Mexico. [Photo by Steve Marshal]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1398 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1398\"  data-avia-tooltip='A soldier fly, Caloparyphus decemmaculatus (Osten Sacken) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae); New Mexico. [Photo by Steve Marshal]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='12' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13-1-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='13' title='Ctenophora apicata O.S. (Tipulidae); Borer Falls, Dundas, Ontario. [Photo by Steve Marshall]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1399 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1399\"  data-avia-tooltip='Ctenophora apicata O.S. (Tipulidae); Borer Falls, Dundas, Ontario. [Photo by Steve Marshall]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/13-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='13' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='14' title='Courting\/mating long-legged flies, Dolichopus Latreille (Diptera: Dolichopodidae); Copetown Bog, Wentworth Co., Ontario. [Photo by Steve Marshall]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1400 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1400\"  data-avia-tooltip='Courting\/mating long-legged flies, Dolichopus Latreille (Diptera: Dolichopodidae); Copetown Bog, Wentworth Co., Ontario. [Photo by Steve Marshall]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='14' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='15' title='A rarely observed robber fly, Ommatius bromleyi Pritchard (Diptera: Asilidae); Guadaloupe Canyon, Arizona. [Photo by Steve Marshall]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1401 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1401\"  data-avia-tooltip='A rarely observed robber fly, Ommatius bromleyi Pritchard (Diptera: Asilidae); Guadaloupe Canyon, Arizona. [Photo by Steve Marshall]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='15' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/16-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/16-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='16' title='Uramya halisidotae (Townsend) (Tachinidae); Ramsay Canyon, Arizona. [Photo by Steve Marshall]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1402 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1402\"  data-avia-tooltip='Uramya halisidotae (Townsend) (Tachinidae); Ramsay Canyon, Arizona. [Photo by Steve Marshall]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/16-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='16' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/17-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/17-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='17' title='Three ladies dining at Cafe Feed-Bee in a bee hive feeder at Pouawa on the east coast of New Zealand just north of Gisborne. This study is continuing to find the best way to provide honey bees with protein supplementation during periods of pollen dearth in the autumn (fall) and in so doing hoping they will survive winter and be vigorous in the spring. [Photo by John Mclean]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1403 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1403\"  data-avia-tooltip='Three ladies dining at Cafe Feed-Bee in a bee hive feeder at Pouawa on the east coast of New Zealand just north of Gisborne. This study is continuing to find the best way to provide honey bees with protein supplementation during periods of pollen dearth in the autumn (fall) and in so doing hoping they will survive winter and be vigorous in the spring. [Photo by John Mclean]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/17-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='17' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/18-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/18-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='18' title='Agapostemon texana collecting pollen from a mariposa lily (Calochortus macrocarpus) in the Okanagan Valley British Columbia. [Photo by Lisa Neame]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1404 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1404\"  data-avia-tooltip='Agapostemon texana collecting pollen from a mariposa lily (Calochortus macrocarpus) in the Okanagan Valley British Columbia. [Photo by Lisa Neame]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/18-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='18' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/19-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/19-1-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='19' title='Bombus huntii sonicating a tomato  (Lycospersium persicum) flower at an organic farm in the Similkameen Valley British Columbia. [Photo by Lisa Neame]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1405 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1405\"  data-avia-tooltip='Bombus huntii sonicating a tomato  (Lycospersium persicum) flower at an organic farm in the Similkameen Valley British Columbia. [Photo by Lisa Neame]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/19-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='19' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='20' title='Melissodes communis visiting a butternut squash (Curcurbita moschata) flower in the Okanagan Valley British Columbia. [Photo by Lisa Neame]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1406 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1406\"  data-avia-tooltip='Melissodes communis visiting a butternut squash (Curcurbita moschata) flower in the Okanagan Valley British Columbia. [Photo by Lisa Neame]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='20' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/21-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/21-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='21' title='A male Cephenemyia jellisoni Townsend (Oestridae) watches for a passing female from its perch on a mountain mahogany leaf on Gomez Peak in southwestern New Mexico, USA, while a tiny parasitic wasp (Scelionidae) rests on a wing tip. [James O&rsquo;Hara]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1407 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1407\"  data-avia-tooltip='A male Cephenemyia jellisoni Townsend (Oestridae) watches for a passing female from its perch on a mountain mahogany leaf on Gomez Peak in southwestern New Mexico, USA, while a tiny parasitic wasp (Scelionidae) rests on a wing tip. [James O&rsquo;Hara]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/21-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='21' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/22-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/22-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='22' title='A robber fly (Promachus sp., Asilidae) dines on a captured syrphid fly (Spilomyia kahli Snow, Syrphidae) on Gomez Peak in southwestern New Mexico, USA. [Photo by James O&rsquo;Hara]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1408 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1408\"  data-avia-tooltip='A robber fly (Promachus sp., Asilidae) dines on a captured syrphid fly (Spilomyia kahli Snow, Syrphidae) on Gomez Peak in southwestern New Mexico, USA. [Photo by James O&rsquo;Hara]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/22-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='22' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/23-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/23-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='23' title='Dolichopodidae, Dolichopus sp., male.  Edmonton, Alberta, 11 June 2011.   It is unusual to see ornamented midtarsi instead of foretarsi in this genus [at least, that&rsquo;s what Steve Marshall says!] [Photo by Heather Proctor]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1409 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1409\"  data-avia-tooltip='Dolichopodidae, Dolichopus sp., male.  Edmonton, Alberta, 11 June 2011.   It is unusual to see ornamented midtarsi instead of foretarsi in this genus [at least, that&rsquo;s what Steve Marshall says!] [Photo by Heather Proctor]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/23-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='23' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/24-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/24-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='24' title='Sciomyzidae, probably a Tetanocera sp. Edmonton, Alberta, 2 July 2006.   Larvae of this genus are predators of snails and slugs.  This fly was sitting on a sedge in our backyard pond, from which it had probably emerged. [Photo by Heather Proctor]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1410 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1410\"  data-avia-tooltip='Sciomyzidae, probably a Tetanocera sp. Edmonton, Alberta, 2 July 2006.   Larvae of this genus are predators of snails and slugs.  This fly was sitting on a sedge in our backyard pond, from which it had probably emerged. [Photo by Heather Proctor]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/24-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='24' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/25-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/25-1-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='25' title='A soldier fly, Odontomyia cincta Olivier (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). From an acreage near Elk Island National Park, Alberta, 13 June 2007.   Some adult soldier flies appear to mimic wasps, but being green is not likely to do the trick for this species. [Photo by Heather Proctor]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1411 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1411\"  data-avia-tooltip='A soldier fly, Odontomyia cincta Olivier (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). From an acreage near Elk Island National Park, Alberta, 13 June 2007.   Some adult soldier flies appear to mimic wasps, but being green is not likely to do the trick for this species. [Photo by Heather Proctor]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/25-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='25' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/26.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/26-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='26' title='Anais Renaud avoiding flies Churchill 2007. [Photo by Jeff Skevington]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1412 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1412\"  data-avia-tooltip='Anais Renaud avoiding flies Churchill 2007. [Photo by Jeff Skevington]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/26-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='26' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/27-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/27-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='27' title='Carnarvon Geeks (Jim O&rsquo;Hara and Jeff Cumming aka The Visor Twins) mounting flies in Queensland Australia 2002. [Photo by Jeff Skevington]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1413 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1413\"  data-avia-tooltip='Carnarvon Geeks (Jim O&rsquo;Hara and Jeff Cumming aka The Visor Twins) mounting flies in Queensland Australia 2002. [Photo by Jeff Skevington]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/27-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='27' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/28-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/28-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='28' title='Eristalis brousii (Diptera Syrphidae) Churchill 2007. [Photo by Jeff Skevington]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1414 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1414\"  data-avia-tooltip='Eristalis brousii (Diptera Syrphidae) Churchill 2007. [Photo by Jeff Skevington]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/28-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='28' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/29-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/29-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='29' title='Jeff and Alexander Skevington field pinning in Arizona 2007. [Photo by Angela Skevington]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1415 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1415\"  data-avia-tooltip='Jeff and Alexander Skevington field pinning in Arizona 2007. [Photo by Angela Skevington]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/29-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='29' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/30-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/30-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='30' title='Parhelophilus laetus (Diptera Syrphidae) Churchill 2007. [Photo by Jeff Skevington]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1416 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1416\"  data-avia-tooltip='Parhelophilus laetus (Diptera Syrphidae) Churchill 2007. [Photo by Jeff Skevington]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/30-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='30' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/31-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/31-1-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='31' title='A bee fly, Bombylius aurifer Osten Sacken (Diptera:Bombyliidae), wing-fanning on a leaf. Vernon, British Columbia [Photo by Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1417 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1417\"  data-avia-tooltip='A bee fly, Bombylius aurifer Osten Sacken (Diptera:Bombyliidae), wing-fanning on a leaf. Vernon, British Columbia [Photo by Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/31-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='31' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/32-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/32-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='32' title='Larva of a human botfly, Dermatobia hominis (Linnaeus, Jr.) (Diptera: Oestridae), excised from under the skin of a host. Costa Rica. [Photo by Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1418 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1418\"  data-avia-tooltip='Larva of a human botfly, Dermatobia hominis (Linnaeus, Jr.) (Diptera: Oestridae), excised from under the skin of a host. Costa Rica. [Photo by Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/32-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='32' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/33-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/33-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='33' title='A calliphorid feeds on thyme flowers, Vernon, British Columbia. [Photo by Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1419 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1419\"  data-avia-tooltip='A calliphorid feeds on thyme flowers, Vernon, British Columbia. [Photo by Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/33-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='33' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/34-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/34-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='34' title='Head of a Narcissus bulb fly, Merodon equestris (F.) (Diptera: Syrphidae),  a species introduced to North America from Europe. Vernon, British Columbia. [Photo by Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1420 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1420\"  data-avia-tooltip='Head of a Narcissus bulb fly, Merodon equestris (F.) (Diptera: Syrphidae),  a species introduced to North America from Europe. Vernon, British Columbia. [Photo by Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/34-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='34' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/35-1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-6' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/35-1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='35' title='A spittlebug feeds on grass near Vernon, British Columbia. [Photo by Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1421 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1421\"  data-avia-tooltip='A spittlebug feeds on grass near Vernon, British Columbia. [Photo by Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/35-1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='35' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h2  blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_gallery  el_before_av_gallery  '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Sixi\u00e9me concours annuel de photographie &#8211; 2010<\/h2><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='avia-gallery  avia-gallery-7 deactivate_avia_lazyload avia-gallery-animate avia_animate_when_visible  avia-builder-el-16  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_heading '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class='avia-gallery-thumb'> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_30.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_30-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='1' title='Eggs of western conifer seed bug, Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Hemiptera: Coreidae) on conifer needles near Vernon, British Columbia. This Nearctic species causes significant losses to North American conifer seed crops, especially in the west. Now established in Europe, it is causing problems for edible pine nut, Pinus pinea L. (Pinaceae), production.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1452 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1452\"  data-avia-tooltip='Eggs of western conifer seed bug, Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Hemiptera: Coreidae) on conifer needles near Vernon, British Columbia. This Nearctic species causes significant losses to North American conifer seed crops, especially in the west. Now established in Europe, it is causing problems for edible pine nut, Pinus pinea L. (Pinaceae), production.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_30-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(30)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_29.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_29-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='2' title='A platygastroid wasp, Gryon pennsylvanicum (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), ovipositing in eggs of western conifer seed bug, Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Hemiptera: Coreidae) in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1451 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1451\"  data-avia-tooltip='A platygastroid wasp, Gryon pennsylvanicum (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), ovipositing in eggs of western conifer seed bug, Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Hemiptera: Coreidae) in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_29-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(29)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_28.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_28-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='3' title='A robber fly, Stenopogon inquinatus Loew (Diptera: Asilidae), photographed in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. One of the largest Canadian asilids, it ranges over much of western North America where it is common in dry forests and grasslands.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1450 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1450\"  data-avia-tooltip='A robber fly, Stenopogon inquinatus Loew (Diptera: Asilidae), photographed in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. One of the largest Canadian asilids, it ranges over much of western North America where it is common in dry forests and grasslands.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_28-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(28)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_5.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_5-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='4' title='Mating soldier beetles, Rhagonycha fulva (Scopoli) (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), in a meadow near Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland. This predatory European beetle was recently introduced to North America where it is now widespread.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1427 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1427\"  data-avia-tooltip='Mating soldier beetles, Rhagonycha fulva (Scopoli) (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), in a meadow near Del\u00e9mont, Switzerland. This predatory European beetle was recently introduced to North America where it is now widespread.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_5-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(5)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_26.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_26-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='5' title='An assassin bug nymph (Heteroptera: Reduviidae), photographed in western Massachusetts.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1448 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1448\"  data-avia-tooltip='An assassin bug nymph (Heteroptera: Reduviidae), photographed in western Massachusetts.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_26-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(26)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='6' title='A meadow grasshopper nymph, probably a species of Chorthippus Fieber (Orthoptera: Acrididae), in a mountain pasture near Soyhi\u00e8res, Switzerland.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1423 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1423\"  data-avia-tooltip='A meadow grasshopper nymph, probably a species of Chorthippus Fieber (Orthoptera: Acrididae), in a mountain pasture near Soyhi\u00e8res, Switzerland.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(1)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_6.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_6-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='7' title='Many species of blue butterflies, Plebejus Kluk and its close relatives (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), occur in Europe. This one, photographed near Jerisberghof, Switzerland, is very similar to the Melissa blue, Plebejus melissa (Edwards), a Nearctic species which includes P. m. samuelis (Nabokov), the Karner blue, a subspecies believed to be extirpated in Canada.'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1428 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1428\"  data-avia-tooltip='Many species of blue butterflies, Plebejus Kluk and its close relatives (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), occur in Europe. This one, photographed near Jerisberghof, Switzerland, is very similar to the Melissa blue, Plebejus melissa (Edwards), a Nearctic species which includes P. m. samuelis (Nabokov), the Karner blue, a subspecies believed to be extirpated in Canada.' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_6-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(6)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_34.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_34-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='8' title='Bee balm syrphid.  [Photo: Bernie Roitberg]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1456 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1456\"  data-avia-tooltip='Bee balm syrphid.  [Photo: Bernie Roitberg]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_34-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(34)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_33.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_33-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='9' title='Red Turpentine Beetle, Dendroctonus valens, near Vernon, BC. This bark beetle has become a problem in local conifer seed orchard trees,  possibly as a result of population buildup in nearby Mountain Pine Beetle attacked forests. [Photo: Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1455 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1455\"  data-avia-tooltip='Red Turpentine Beetle, Dendroctonus valens, near Vernon, BC. This bark beetle has become a problem in local conifer seed orchard trees,  possibly as a result of population buildup in nearby Mountain Pine Beetle attacked forests. [Photo: Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_33-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Modified by CombineZP' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_31.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_31-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='10' title='Collecting Dioryctria spp. by mercury-vapour light trap. The trap was powered by a car battery that was started periodically to maintain charge.  Graduate students from UA and UNBC collected Dioryctria adults from among the huge array of insects attracted to the light. [Photo: Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1453 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1453\"  data-avia-tooltip='Collecting Dioryctria spp. by mercury-vapour light trap. The trap was powered by a car battery that was started periodically to maintain charge.  Graduate students from UA and UNBC collected Dioryctria adults from among the huge array of insects attracted to the light. [Photo: Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_31-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Processed by: Helicon Filter;' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_2.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_2-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='11' title='Lars Andreassen preparing lures in Zurich Switzerland for pitfall trapping of Aleochara bipustulata (L.) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), a rove beetle of potential use as a biological control agent for cabbage maggot, Delia radicum (L.) (Diptera: Anthomyiidae).'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1424 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1424\"  data-avia-tooltip='Lars Andreassen preparing lures in Zurich Switzerland for pitfall trapping of Aleochara bipustulata (L.) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), a rove beetle of potential use as a biological control agent for cabbage maggot, Delia radicum (L.) (Diptera: Anthomyiidae).' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_2-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(2)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_20.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_20-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='12' title='University of Manitoba student Alicia Leroux collecting insects near Le Chene des Bosses, the oldest oak tree in Europe (Ch\u00e2tillon, Switzerland) [Photo: Chandra Moffat]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1442 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1442\"  data-avia-tooltip='University of Manitoba student Alicia Leroux collecting insects near Le Chene des Bosses, the oldest oak tree in Europe (Ch\u00e2tillon, Switzerland) [Photo: Chandra Moffat]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_20-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(20)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_27.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_27-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='13' title='Attract-and-Kill technology combines pheromone and an insecticide in a Vaseline-like matrix. Ward Strong is shown distributing the matrix in tiny droplets in white pine trees against the tortricid Eucosma rescissoriana. Males contacting a droplet die.  [Photo: Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1449 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1449\"  data-avia-tooltip='Attract-and-Kill technology combines pheromone and an insecticide in a Vaseline-like matrix. Ward Strong is shown distributing the matrix in tiny droplets in white pine trees against the tortricid Eucosma rescissoriana. Males contacting a droplet die.  [Photo: Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_27-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(27)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_22.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_22-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='14' title='Jeff Padgham searching for galls of Aulacidea pilosellae, a candidate biocontrol agent of invasive hawkweeds,  in Krkonossky Narodni Park, Czech Republic [Photo: Chandra Moffat]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1444 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1444\"  data-avia-tooltip='Jeff Padgham searching for galls of Aulacidea pilosellae, a candidate biocontrol agent of invasive hawkweeds,  in Krkonossky Narodni Park, Czech Republic [Photo: Chandra Moffat]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_22-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(22)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_21.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_21-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='15' title='University of British Columbia students Dave Ensing (left) and Chandra Moffat (right) near Oberwiesenthal, Germany,  searching for galls of Aulacidea pilosellae, a candidate biocontrol agent for invasive hawkweeds. [Photo: Jeff Padgham]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1443 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1443\"  data-avia-tooltip='University of British Columbia students Dave Ensing (left) and Chandra Moffat (right) near Oberwiesenthal, Germany,  searching for galls of Aulacidea pilosellae, a candidate biocontrol agent for invasive hawkweeds. [Photo: Jeff Padgham]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_21-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(21)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_3.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_3-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='16' title='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1425 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1425\"  data-avia-tooltip='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_3-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(3)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_4.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_4-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='17' title='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1426 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1426\"  data-avia-tooltip='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_4-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(4)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_7.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_7-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='18' title='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1429 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1429\"  data-avia-tooltip='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_7-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(7)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_8.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_8-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='19' title='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1430 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1430\"  data-avia-tooltip='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_8-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(8)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_9.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_9-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='20' title='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1431 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1431\"  data-avia-tooltip='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_9-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(9)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_16.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_16-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='21' title='Tailed Jay, Graphium agamemnon, enjoying the sunshine at the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory in 2010. [Photo: Erik Glemser]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1438 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1438\"  data-avia-tooltip='Tailed Jay, Graphium agamemnon, enjoying the sunshine at the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory in 2010. [Photo: Erik Glemser]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_16-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='SONY DSC' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_17.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_17-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='22' title='Tailed Jay, Graphium agamemnon, enjoying the sunshine at the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory in 2010. [Photo: Erik Glemser]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1439 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1439\"  data-avia-tooltip='Tailed Jay, Graphium agamemnon, enjoying the sunshine at the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory in 2010. [Photo: Erik Glemser]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_17-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='SONY DSC' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_10.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_10-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='23' title='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1432 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1432\"  data-avia-tooltip='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_10-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(10)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_11.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_11-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='24' title='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1433 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1433\"  data-avia-tooltip='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_11-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(11)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_13.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_13-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='25' title='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1435 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1435\"  data-avia-tooltip='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_13-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(13)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_14.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_14-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='26' title='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1436 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1436\"  data-avia-tooltip='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_14-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(14)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_18.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_18-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='27' title='A jumping spider found in the garden was photographed around Grand Bend in the spring of 2010.  From within the protection of the plant stem, the spider cautiously, and perhaps curiously, studied the camera. [Photo: Erik Glemser]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1440 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1440\"  data-avia-tooltip='A jumping spider found in the garden was photographed around Grand Bend in the spring of 2010.  From within the protection of the plant stem, the spider cautiously, and perhaps curiously, studied the camera. [Photo: Erik Glemser]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_18-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Modified by CombineZP' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_15.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_15-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='28' title='Multicoloured Asian lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis, was photographed in Guelph during the spring of 2010. [Photo: Erik Glemser]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1437 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1437\"  data-avia-tooltip='Multicoloured Asian lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis, was photographed in Guelph during the spring of 2010. [Photo: Erik Glemser]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_15-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Modified by CombineZP' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_19.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_19-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='29' title='Alfalfa leafcutter bee, Megachile rotundata, was photographed at the University of Guelph in 2010 prior to being released into an alfalfa field for experimental research. [Photo: Erik Glemser]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1441 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1441\"  data-avia-tooltip='Alfalfa leafcutter bee, Megachile rotundata, was photographed at the University of Guelph in 2010 prior to being released into an alfalfa field for experimental research. [Photo: Erik Glemser]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_19-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='Modified by CombineZP' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_25.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_25-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='30' title='[Photo: Bernie Roitberg]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1447 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1447\"  data-avia-tooltip='[Photo: Bernie Roitberg]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_25-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(25)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_23.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_23-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='31' title='Buckeye feeding.  [Photo: Bernie Roitberg]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1445 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1445\"  data-avia-tooltip='Buckeye feeding.  [Photo: Bernie Roitberg]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_23-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(23)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_24.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_24-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='32' title='Dragonfly eating a pierid.  [Photo: Bernie Roitberg]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1446 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1446\"  data-avia-tooltip='Dragonfly eating a pierid.  [Photo: Bernie Roitberg]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_24-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(24)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_32.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_32-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='33' title='An adult spruce rust mite, Nalepella halourga (Acari: Eriophyidae) is no longer than 100 micrometers.  [Photo: Ward Strong]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1454 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1454\"  data-avia-tooltip='An adult spruce rust mite, Nalepella halourga (Acari: Eriophyidae) is no longer than 100 micrometers.  [Photo: Ward Strong]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_32-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(32)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_12.jpg' data-rel='gallery-7' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_12-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='34' title='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1434 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1434\"  data-avia-tooltip='[Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6th_annual_12-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='6th_annual_(12)' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h2  blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-17  el_after_av_gallery  el_before_av_gallery  '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Cinqui\u00e8me concours annuel de photographie &#8211; 2009<\/h2><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='avia-gallery  avia-gallery-8 deactivate_avia_lazyload avia-gallery-animate avia_animate_when_visible  avia-builder-el-18  el_after_av_heading  avia-builder-el-last '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class='avia-gallery-thumb'> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_48.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_48-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='1' title='Alucita adriendenisi (Landry &#038; Landry) (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae), found across much of Canada, was named in  honour of Adrien Denis who assisted Carl Atwood, the father of Margaret Atwood, in his entomological  work and left a significant impression on the Atwood family. [Photo: Jason Dombroskie]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1505 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1505\"  data-avia-tooltip='Alucita adriendenisi (Landry &#038; Landry) (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae), found across much of Canada, was named in  honour of Adrien Denis who assisted Carl Atwood, the father of Margaret Atwood, in his entomological  work and left a significant impression on the Atwood family. [Photo: Jason Dombroskie]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_48-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(48)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_46.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_46-450x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='2' title='Cyphocleonus achates (Fahraeus) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is a root feeding weevil introduced into  Canada for the biological control of non-native species of knapweed (Centaurea spp.). [Photo: Brian Van Hezewijk]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1503 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1503\"  data-avia-tooltip='Cyphocleonus achates (Fahraeus) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is a root feeding weevil introduced into  Canada for the biological control of non-native species of knapweed (Centaurea spp.). [Photo: Brian Van Hezewijk]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_46-450x400.jpg' width='450' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(46)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_6.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_6-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='3' title='A round-headed apple tree borer, Saperda candida (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) near Peterborough, Ontario.  Individuals of this species vary in the predominance of light (as in this specimen) or dark stripes. [Photo: Jay Fitzsimmons]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1463 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1463\"  data-avia-tooltip='A round-headed apple tree borer, Saperda candida (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) near Peterborough, Ontario.  Individuals of this species vary in the predominance of light (as in this specimen) or dark stripes. [Photo: Jay Fitzsimmons]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_6-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(6)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_10.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_10-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='4' title='Collecting parasitoids of the cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus (Marsham)  (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), in Swiss canola (Brassica sp.) fields. [Photo: Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1467 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1467\"  data-avia-tooltip='Collecting parasitoids of the cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus (Marsham)  (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), in Swiss canola (Brassica sp.) fields. [Photo: Tim Haye]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_10-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(10)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_13.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_13-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='5' title='Piagetiella peralis (Leidy) (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae), a parasite found in the pouch of  American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchus). [Photo: Terry Galloway]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1470 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1470\"  data-avia-tooltip='Piagetiella peralis (Leidy) (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae), a parasite found in the pouch of  American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchus). [Photo: Terry Galloway]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_13-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(13)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_15.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_15-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='6' title='Mating flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Gatineau Park, Quebec. [Photo: Maxim Larriv\u00e9e]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1472 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1472\"  data-avia-tooltip='Mating flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Gatineau Park, Quebec. [Photo: Maxim Larriv\u00e9e]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_15-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(15)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_47.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_47-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='7' title='A highly ornamented soil mite from native grasslands in Alberta (Prostigmata: Stigmaeidae). [Photo: Heather Proctor] '  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1504 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1504\"  data-avia-tooltip='A highly ornamented soil mite from native grasslands in Alberta (Prostigmata: Stigmaeidae). [Photo: Heather Proctor] ' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_47-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(47)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_28.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_28-335x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='8' title='Caterpillar of the spurge hawk-moth, Hyles euphorbiae (L.) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), on leafy spurge  (Euphorbia esula L.), Spruce Woods Provincial. Park, Manitoba [Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1485 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1485\"  data-avia-tooltip='Caterpillar of the spurge hawk-moth, Hyles euphorbiae (L.) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), on leafy spurge  (Euphorbia esula L.), Spruce Woods Provincial. Park, Manitoba [Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_28-335x400.jpg' width='335' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(28)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_1.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_1-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='9' title='Pelecinus polyturator (Hymenoptera, Pelecinidae) near Gatineau, Quebec.  These intimidating-looking wasps are parasitoids of June beetles. [Photo: Jay Fitzsimmons]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1458 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1458\"  data-avia-tooltip='Pelecinus polyturator (Hymenoptera, Pelecinidae) near Gatineau, Quebec.  These intimidating-looking wasps are parasitoids of June beetles. [Photo: Jay Fitzsimmons]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_1-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(1)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_2.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_2-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='10' title='The sedge sprite Nehalennia irene (Odonata, Coenagrionidae) near Peterborough, Ontario. Note the mites attached to its abdomen. [Photo: Jay Fitzsimmons]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1459 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1459\"  data-avia-tooltip='The sedge sprite Nehalennia irene (Odonata, Coenagrionidae) near Peterborough, Ontario. Note the mites attached to its abdomen. [Photo: Jay Fitzsimmons]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_2-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(2)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_3.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_3-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='11' title='The calico pennant, Celithemis elisa (Odonata, Libellulidae), near Peterborough, Ontario.  Note the grasshopper in the background. [Photo: Jay Fitzsimmons]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1460 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1460\"  data-avia-tooltip='The calico pennant, Celithemis elisa (Odonata, Libellulidae), near Peterborough, Ontario.  Note the grasshopper in the background. [Photo: Jay Fitzsimmons]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_3-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(3)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_4.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_4-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='12' title='Two calico pennant dragonflies, Celithemis elisa (Odonata, Libellulidae), near Peterborough, Ontario.  The male (top) and female (bottom) can be distinguished by colouration. [Photo: Jay Fitzsimmons]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1461 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1461\"  data-avia-tooltip='Two calico pennant dragonflies, Celithemis elisa (Odonata, Libellulidae), near Peterborough, Ontario.  The male (top) and female (bottom) can be distinguished by colouration. [Photo: Jay Fitzsimmons]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_4-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(4)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_5.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_5-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='13' title='A goldenrod spider, Misumena vatia (Araneae, Thomisidae) near Peterborough, Ontario.  Although the spider is not an insect it, like us entomologists, eagerly anticipates encounters with insects. [Photo: Jay Fitzsimmons]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1462 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1462\"  data-avia-tooltip='A goldenrod spider, Misumena vatia (Araneae, Thomisidae) near Peterborough, Ontario.  Although the spider is not an insect it, like us entomologists, eagerly anticipates encounters with insects. [Photo: Jay Fitzsimmons]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_5-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(5)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_7.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_7-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='14' title='The cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a serious canola pest of European origin. [Photo: Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1464 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1464\"  data-avia-tooltip='The cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a serious canola pest of European origin. [Photo: Tim Haye]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_7-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(7)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_8.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_8-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='15' title='The parasitoid, Mesopolobus morys (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), a potential biological control agent for the cabbage seedpod weevil. [Photo: Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1465 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1465\"  data-avia-tooltip='The parasitoid, Mesopolobus morys (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), a potential biological control agent for the cabbage seedpod weevil. [Photo: Tim Haye]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_8-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(8)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_9.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_9-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='16' title='Diaparsis jucunda (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), a parasitoid of the invasive lily leaf beetle, Lilioceris lilii (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). [Photo: Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1466 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1466\"  data-avia-tooltip='Diaparsis jucunda (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), a parasitoid of the invasive lily leaf beetle, Lilioceris lilii (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). 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[Photo: Tim Haye]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_11-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(11)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_12.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_12-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='18' title='Calopteryx virgo (Odonata: Libelluidae), Switzerland. [Photo: Tim Haye]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1469 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1469\"  data-avia-tooltip='Calopteryx virgo (Odonata: Libelluidae), Switzerland. 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[Photo: Maxim Larriv\u00e9e]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_17-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(17)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_18.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_18-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='22' title='Camponotus ants tending Silvery blue (Glaucopsysche lygdamus) on lupine in Kalamalka provincial park, B.C. [Photo: Maxim Larriv\u00e9e'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1475 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1475\"  data-avia-tooltip='Camponotus ants tending Silvery blue (Glaucopsysche lygdamus) on lupine in Kalamalka provincial park, B.C. 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[Photo: Doug Eidt] ' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_44-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(44)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_45.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_45-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='24' title='Reduvvid feeding on a fly on the underside of a Shasta daisy. [Photo: Doug Eidt]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1502 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1502\"  data-avia-tooltip='Reduvvid feeding on a fly on the underside of a Shasta daisy. [Photo: Doug Eidt]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_45-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(45)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_30.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_30-495x210.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='25' title='Hyles euphorbiae on leafy spurge, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba. [Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1487 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1487\"  data-avia-tooltip='Hyles euphorbiae on leafy spurge, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba. [Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_30-495x210.jpg' width='495' height='210'  title='5th_annual_(30)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_33.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_33-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='26' title='A dragonfly on leafy spurge, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba. [Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1490 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1490\"  data-avia-tooltip='A dragonfly on leafy spurge, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba. [Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_33-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(33)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_42.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_42-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='27' title='5th_annual_(42)'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1499 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1499\"   src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_42-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(42)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_22.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_22-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='28' title='Pasimachus elongatus in Spirt sands, Manitoba. [Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1479 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1479\"  data-avia-tooltip='Pasimachus elongatus in Spirt sands, Manitoba. [Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_22-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(22)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_24.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_24-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='29' title='A bee fly feeding, Spirt Sands, Manitoba. [Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1481 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1481\"  data-avia-tooltip='A bee fly feeding, Spirt Sands, Manitoba. [Photo: Alicia Leroux]' src='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_24-495x400.jpg' width='495' height='400'  title='5th_annual_(24)' alt='' \/><\/a> <a href='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_25.jpg' data-rel='gallery-8' data-prev-img='https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5th_annual_25-495x400.jpg' class='lightbox ' data-onclick='30' title='A crab spider consuming a grasshopper, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba. [Photo: Alicia Leroux]'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-1482 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1482\"  data-avia-tooltip='A crab spider consuming a grasshopper, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba. 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