{"id":10862,"date":"2020-05-23T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T02:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10862"},"modified":"2020-05-24T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T23:21:15","slug":"may-23-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10862","title":{"rendered":"May 23"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 May 23<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I tried to look for the Field Crescent <\/strong>today, without success.\u00a0 The field on West Saanich Road about a km north of Stelly’s Cross Road next to the cemetary, where there was a big colony of the butterfly, was, as Ron pointed out late last year, totally destroyed.\u00a0 Eddy’s storage now has a large number of gigantic trailers and other vehicles parked there, and the area is obviously now very much disturbed.\u00a0 I don’t think we are going to see Field Crescents there again.\u00a0 I don’t know of anywhere else in the southern Vancouver Island birdwatching area where they occur.\u00a0 We may have lost this one.<\/p>\n

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

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1 Egira rubrica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

1 Lacinipolia cuneata\/pensilis\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Tyria\u00a0jacobaeae<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

and an unknown ichneumonid pictured from above and below.<\/p>\n

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

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

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes: In an earlier version of this posting, I had confidently labelled Jochen’s next photograph as Lacinipolia pensilis<\/em>.\u00a0 Since then, Jeremy Gatten, Libby Avis and I have had some discussion, and we have concluded that L. pensilis<\/em> and L. cuneata <\/em>are not the easiest moths in the world to distinguish!\u00a0 For the time being I am relabelling this moth and the one from May 22 as L. cuneata\/pensilis, <\/em>putting cuneata<\/em> first to indicate that we think this is the more likely for both photographs.<\/p>\n


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Lacinipolia cuneata\/pensilis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Hydriomena marinata\/californiata<\/em>, (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Ichneumonids are notoriously difficult to identify.\u00a0 I am going to label this one “probably” Ophion luteus<\/em><\/strong>, but maybe “probably” is a bit optimistic, and perhaps I should write “possibly”.<\/p>\n

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Probably Ophion luteus <\/em>(Hym.: Ichneumonidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Probably Ophion luteus <\/em>(Hym.: Ichneumonidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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2020 May 23 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I tried to look for the Field Crescent today, without success.\u00a0 The field on West Saanich Road about a km north of Stelly’s Cross Road next to the cemetary, where there was a big colony of the butterfly, was, as Ron pointed out late last year, totally […]<\/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-10862","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\/10862","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=10862"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}