{"id":10419,"date":"2020-04-19T15:31:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10419"},"modified":"2020-04-19T15:42:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:42:35","slug":"april-19-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10419","title":{"rendered":"April 19 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 April 19 afternoon<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Here&#8217;s a <strong>Carpenter Ant <\/strong>photographed by Mr E at Coles Bay and identified by Sean McCann as <strong><em>Camponotus modoc<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-137.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"414.125641025641\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Camponotus modoc <\/em>(Hym.: Formicidae) Mr E<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 The next insect, also photographed by Mr E at Coles Bay, is identified by Sean McCann as a <strong>nomad bee<\/strong> of the genus \u2013 what else? \u2013 <strong><em>Nomada<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-138.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"402.64871794871794\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nomada <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Hym.: \u00a0Apidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Cerastis enigmatica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Cladara\u00a0 limitaria\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Egira crucialis\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Egira perlubens <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Eupithecia annulata <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Eupithecia graefii <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Eupithecia <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp<\/strong><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Feralia deceptiva<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Hydriomena manzanita\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>5 Melanolophia imitata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Perizoma curvilinea\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>5 Venusia obsoleta \/pearsalli<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes: None of us is yet 100 percent certain of how to distinguish <em>Egira simplex <\/em>from <em>Egira crucialis. <\/em>I have labelled all three moths in the two photographs below as <em>Egira crucialis<\/em>, though I do so with some trepidation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-139.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira crucialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-140.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"334.7435897435897\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira crucialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-141.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira rubrica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-142.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"459.07692307692304\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 April 19 afternoon &nbsp; 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