{"id":11236,"date":"2020-06-25T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T01:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11236"},"modified":"2020-06-28T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T21:51:22","slug":"june-25-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11236","title":{"rendered":"June 25"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 June 25<\/strong><\/p>\n

Val George writes:\u00a0 Here’s my two cents’ worth on Ron’s Parnassian photos posted May 27.\u00a0 The major distinguishing feature between clodius<\/em> and smintheus<\/em> is I think the banded antennae on smintheus<\/em>;\u00a0 clodius<\/em> has plain black antennae.\u00a0 Ron’s photos clearly show this feature, suggesting smintheus<\/em>.\u00a0 However, another difference between the two species is supposed to be the second black bar from the thorax on the forewing in the cell closest to the\u00a0front edge of wing.\u00a0 For smintheus<\/em> it shouldn’t reach completely across the cell;\u00a0 for clodius<\/em> it does reach fully across.\u00a0 All the photos I’ve seen of the two species show this difference, e.g., all 27 photos for smintheus<\/em> on e-Fauna showing the forewing do not have the bar reaching across whereas all 23 similar photos for clodius<\/em> do have the bar reaching across.\u00a0 Ron’s photos show this bar reaching fully across the cell suggesting clodius<\/em>.\u00a0 It was previously noted that Ron’s butterfly doesn’t have any red spots on its forewing, again suggesting clodius<\/em>, but this isn’t a definitive identification feature.\u00a0 My conclusion:\u00a0 a very definite maybe<\/span> for smintheus<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Thank you, Val, for this quite considerable bit of research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs of two moths \u2013 identified by Libby Avis \u2013 from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n

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Apamea antennata <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I found a young Red Admiral <\/strong>caterpillar today along Lochside Trail near Lohbrunner’s.<\/p>\n

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And along the same trail today, Jeff Gaskin reports a Satyr Comma, <\/strong> 10 Lorquin’s Admirals<\/strong>,\u00a0 a few Cabbage Whites<\/strong> and 3 Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Kirsten Mills sends a photograph of another caterpillar found near the same place some time in May.\u00a0 I am supposed to be calling it Erannis vancouverensis<\/em><\/strong>, but I have yet to be convinced that it isn’t the European Erannis defoliaria<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Erannis vancouverensis<\/em>\/defoliaria <\/em> (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Also in May, Richard Rycraft sends a picture from Oak Bay of a pair of Narcissus Bulb Flies <\/strong>in copula.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Narcissus Bulb Flies Merodon equestris <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Richard Rycraft.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a Pale Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong> from Muir Creek:<\/p>\n

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Pale Tiger Swallowtail (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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She also saw three Western Tiger Swallowtails,<\/strong> though she comments on the scarcity of these butterflies.<\/p>\n

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2020 June 25 Val George writes:\u00a0 Here’s my two cents’ worth on Ron’s Parnassian photos posted May 27.\u00a0 The major distinguishing feature between clodius and smintheus is I think the banded antennae on smintheus;\u00a0 clodius has plain black antennae.\u00a0 Ron’s photos clearly show this feature, suggesting smintheus.\u00a0 However, another difference between the two species is […]<\/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-11236","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\/11236","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=11236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11268,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236\/revisions\/11268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}