{"id":10752,"date":"2020-05-17T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10752"},"modified":"2020-05-28T06:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T13:39:10","slug":"may-17-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10752","title":{"rendered":"May 17 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 May 17 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n

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1 Agrotis vancouverensis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Eupithecia cretaceata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

3\u00a0Eupithecia <\/em><\/strong>spp<\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

4 Melanolophia imitata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Nola minna<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Perizoma curvilinea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Pero <\/em><\/strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Tyria jacobaeae<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Pero<\/em> is giving us problems.\u00a0 Jeremy thinks not mizon;<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>Libby thinks not behrensia <\/em>or morrisonaria<\/em>.\u00a0 There are still a few to go, but our most honest guess is probably Pero honestaria<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pero <\/em>(probably honestaria<\/em>) (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Pero <\/em>(probably honestaria<\/em>) (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Here are four spiders or spiderlings photographed by Mr E.\u00a0 ‘Fraid we can go down only to Family level with these!<\/p>\n

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Jumping spider (Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Crab spider (Ara.: Thomisidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Tiny spiderling!\u00a0 (Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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Jumping spider (Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Robb Bennett sends a photograph of a\u00a0Western<\/strong> Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>chrysalis from a tree in southeast Saanich.\u00a0 The butterfly emerged and is shown on May 27.<\/p>\n

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Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus<\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Robb Bennett<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Now here is a beetle photographed by Mr E.\u00a0 If you compare it with his cantharid beetle shown on May 5, you may be tempted, at first glance, to think that they are the same species.\u00a0 However, look more critically, and you’ll agree that they don’t have quite the same shape, and Scott Gilmore identifies it for us as Grammoptera molybdica<\/em><\/strong> from a quite different Family – Cerambycidae (Long-horned Beetles), and he says he has never actually seen this species himself!<\/p>\n


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Grammoptera molybdica <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0 Mr E<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s an Adela<\/em> moth photographed by Mr E.\u00a0 Is it A.septentrionella <\/em>\u00a0or is it A.trigrapha<\/em>? \u00a0The white bars are broader in trigrapha <\/em>than in septentrionella<\/em>.\u00a0 But are these bars broad enough?\u00a0 Libby Avis settles it:\u00a0 the white dot on the hindwing shows that it is Adela trigrapha<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Adela trigrapha <\/em>(Lep.: Adelidae)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The beetle Family Cerambycidae are called Long-horned Beetles, and the moth family Adelidae are called (at least in Britain) Long-horned Moths.\u00a0 I have also seen in Saanich some Texas Longhorn Cattle \u2013 but they are not allowed on this site.<\/p>\n

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One more moth from Jochen, identified by Libby Avis as Plagodis pulveraria<\/em><\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Plagodis pulveraria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2020 May 17 afternoon \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:   1 Agrotis vancouverensis 1 Eupithecia cretaceata 3\u00a0Eupithecia spp. 4 Melanolophia imitata 1 Nola minna 1 Perizoma curvilinea 1 Pero sp. 2 Tyria jacobaeae 2 Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli   The Pero is giving us problems.\u00a0 Jeremy thinks not mizon;\u00a0 Libby thinks not behrensia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10925,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions\/10925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}