{"id":11829,"date":"2020-08-11T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11829"},"modified":"2020-08-19T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T18:24:24","slug":"august-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11829","title":{"rendered":"August 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 August 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>1 Biston betularia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Coryphista meadii <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Cosmia praeacuta <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Eulithis xylina<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Lacinipolia strigicollis <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Nemoria darwiniata\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Evergestis funalis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Oligia divesta <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Panthea virginarius<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the easy-to-identify colour variety of <strong><em>Coryphista meadii<\/em><\/strong>:<\/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;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pastedImage-76.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum shows an <strong><em>Acronicta impleta<\/em><\/strong> from Salmonberry at Blinkhorn Lake this afternoon.\u00a0 It has a rather unkempt appearance because it has just undergone ecdysis (in English, it has just changed skin), and it hasn&#8217;t tidied its new clothes yet.\u00a0 It will look much smarter later on.\u00a0 (Libby will probably guess why I was looking on Salmonberry at Blinkhorn Lake. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t find what I was looking for.)<\/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_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pastedImage-77.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Acronicta impleta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Yip writes from Nanoose:\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Common Wood Nymphs<\/strong> have been flying in my yard since Sunday. They were constantly on the move and impossible to photograph until I discovered their weakness &#8211; blackberry wine. I simply set up close to my small blackberry patch and waited. \u00a0Within 15 minutes \u00a0I had some very decent photographs.\u00a0 [I&#8217;d say very decent indeed!\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum]<\/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\/08\/pastedImage-78.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Male Common Wood Nymph <em>Cercyonis pegala <\/em> (Lep.: Nymphalidae \u2013 Satyrinae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\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_image008.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\/08\/pastedImage-79.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Male Common Wood Nymph <em>Cercyonis pegala <\/em> (Lep.: Nymphalidae \u2013 Satyrinae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 August 11 \u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning: &nbsp; \u00a01 Biston betularia 1 Coryphista meadii 2 Cosmia praeacuta 3 Eulithis xylina 1 Lacinipolia strigicollis 3 Nemoria darwiniata\u00a0 1 Evergestis funalis 2 Oligia divesta 1 Panthea virginarius &nbsp; Here&#8217;s the easy-to-identify colour variety of Coryphista meadii: &nbsp; Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr [&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-11829","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\/11829","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=11829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11951,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11829\/revisions\/11951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}