{"id":11169,"date":"2020-06-21T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11169"},"modified":"2020-06-22T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T16:21:16","slug":"june-21-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11169","title":{"rendered":"June 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 June 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The plutellid caterpillar shown below fed on <em>Mahonia<\/em>, and is fairly distinctive in appearance as plutellids go.\u00a0 The adult, shown beneath it, emerged from its cocoon today;\u00a0 it is relatively undistinctive.\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for pointing out the very close similarity, adult and larva, to <em>Ypsolopha ochrella<\/em> (formerly <em>Y. rubrella<\/em>).\u00a0 This may be that species or a very close congener.<\/p>\n<p>Another unidentifed plutellid was shown on May 19 (cocoon) and June 3 morning (adult).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pastedImage-146.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Close to <em>Ypsolopha ochrella <\/em>(Lep.: Plutellidae &#8211; Ypsolophinae) \u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 623px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pastedImage-147.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Close to <em>Ypsolopha ochrella <\/em>(Lep.: Plutellidae &#8211; Ypsolophinae) \u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Mills writes:\u00a0 I was walking to my car when I saw this moth being attacked by a wasp. Is there any chance you can identify it? I saw it this morning. [Jeremy Tatum says:\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 It is a <strong>Polyphemus Moth <\/strong>\u2013 unfortunately a little too beaten up by the wasp to post its battered corpse here!} \u00a0The next picture is a <strong>Clodius Parnassian<\/strong> I saw June 17 on Nanaimo River Road.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pastedImage-148.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Clodius Parnassian <em>Parnassius clodius <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang has a wasps&#8217; nest on her house in the Gorge Area.\u00a0 We thank Claudia Copley for identifying them for us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pastedImage-149.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Common Aerial Yellowjacket\u00a0 <em>Dolichovespula arenaria <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pastedImage-150.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Common Aerial Yellowjacket\u00a0 <em>Dolichovespula arenaria <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong><em>1 Callizzia amorata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 pterophorid <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>1<\/strong> <\/em>possible <em><strong>Eudonia commortalis <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Iridopsis emasculatum<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Perizoma costiguttata\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Protitame subalbaria\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Stenoporpia excelsaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 431px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pastedImage-151.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lep.: Pterophoridae\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 341px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pastedImage-152.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Possibly <em>Eudonia commortalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image016.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pastedImage-153.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Perizoma costiguttata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 June 21 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The plutellid caterpillar shown below fed on Mahonia, and is fairly distinctive in appearance as plutellids go.\u00a0 The adult, shown beneath it, emerged from its cocoon today;\u00a0 it is relatively undistinctive.\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for pointing out the very close similarity, adult and larva, to Ypsolopha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11169","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\/11169","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=11169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11179,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions\/11179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}