{"id":11770,"date":"2020-08-05T16:40:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T23:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11770"},"modified":"2020-09-10T09:34:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T16:34:33","slug":"august-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11770","title":{"rendered":"August 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gordon Hart writes:\u00a0 On Monday, August 3, we went to Royal Roads University since the wind had died down.\u00a0 The Italian and English gardens were at their peak, but the poor rose garden was not kept up at all. It would not have been good for our group, since there was a limit of 50 people in the gardens, and a short line-up to get in. (The rest of the grounds were still open, though). There were several butterflies: 4 Cabbage Whites, one Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong> and a Woodland Skipper<\/strong>, and many Pine<\/strong> Whites<\/strong>. Outside the gardens there were small patches of Goldenrod, and another yellow flower, with several Pine Whites<\/strong> on each clump.<\/p>\n

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Gordon sends photographs of some of the insects he saw there on August 2 and 3.<\/p>\n

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Pine White Neophasia menapia <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Enallagma carunculatum<\/em> (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The insect below (incorrectly identified in an earlier version of this posting) is a Giant Case-bearing Caddisfly <\/strong>of the Family Phryganeidae, and almost certainly Philostomis ocellifera<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 As Merrill Peterson writes of the Family: they have “two spurs on the front tibia”.\u00a0\u00a0 See them?\"\"<\/p>\n

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Philostomis ocellifera <\/em>(Tri.: Phryganeidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Perizoma curvilinea <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Cardinal Meadowhawk\u00a0 Sympetrum illotum <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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

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1 Eulithis xylina\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Eupithecia <\/em><\/strong>sp<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Drepanulatrix <\/em><\/strong>(probably secundaria<\/em><\/strong>) <\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

\u00a0\u00a0 There has been a lot of newspaper publicity recently about the Giant Asian Hornet.\u00a0 The species in question is Vespa mandarinia<\/em>.\u00a0 It is more of a true hornet (Vespa<\/em>) than our common White-faced Hornet.\u00a0 It has been found in Nanaimo.\u00a0 We should keep a look out for it here.\u00a0 According to the newspaper, it can decimate honey bee hives \u2013 that is, it can reduce them by ten percent.\u00a0 Yes, I know there are those of the “language evolves” school who would say that decimate does not mean only this, and they can quote distinguished writers from a century ago who used it mean something else.\u00a0 This may be so, but my feeling is that it is much easier for us to communicate among and understand ourselves, and to make the best use of the English language, if we use the word “spade” to mean “spade”,\u00a0 “kid” to mean “kid”, and “decimate” to mean “decimate”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think the current misuse of the word “decimate” is nothing more than a malapropism of the inaccurately-heard “devastate”.<\/p>\n

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