{"id":11834,"date":"2020-08-12T16:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T23:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11834"},"modified":"2020-08-19T11:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T18:21:02","slug":"august-12-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11834","title":{"rendered":"August 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 The unkempt caterpillar shown yesterday has now had time to tidy itself up a bit:<\/p>\n

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Acronicta impleta<\/em> (Lep.: Noctuidae) \u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy writes:\u00a0 I found this weevil at Blinkhorn Lake yesterday, kindly identified by Charlene Wood as an Obscure Root Weevil <\/strong>Sciopithes obscurus<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

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Obscure Root Weevil Sciopithes obscurus<\/em>\u00a0(Col.: Curculionidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends photographs of a butterfly and a moth from Metchosin today:<\/p>\n

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Male Pine White Neophasia menapia <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen writes:\u00a0 It is still a striking contrast to years ago, when I could count up to 28 Pine Whites just driving by the Royal Roads forest from the Colwood Fire Hall to the Royal Bay Bakery,\u00a0a stretch of merely 0.6 km.\u00a0 I have not seen a single one there this season yet .\u00a0\u00a0 Libby Avis writes from Port Alberni:\u00a0 Not many butterflies here either this year.<\/p>\n

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But Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Kirsten Mills is still seeing a number of Lorquin’s Admirals<\/strong> around these parts.\u00a0 Today, August 12 she saw\u00a0five on Wordsworth Street – and one was still quite fresh.\u00a0 She also saw another one plus a Pine White<\/strong> in Browning Gyro Park.\u00a0 Wordsworth Street and Browning Gyro Park are both places near Hillside Centre.\u00a0 My mother still has a Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong>\u00a0 in her backyard and she lives on the Gorge near Harriet Road. \u00a0I last saw it today, Aug. 12.<\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart sends some pictures from Highlands:<\/p>\n

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Araneus diadematus <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Green Darner Anax junius <\/em>(Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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

(plus one we shan’t try to identify!)<\/p>\n

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Phlogophora periculosa <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

(plus a sciarid dark-winged fungus gnat)<\/p>\n

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2020 August 12 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 The unkempt caterpillar shown yesterday has now had time to tidy itself up a bit:   Acronicta impleta (Lep.: Noctuidae) \u00a0 Jeremy Tatum \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy writes:\u00a0 I found this weevil at Blinkhorn Lake yesterday, kindly identified by Charlene Wood as an Obscure Root Weevil Sciopithes obscurus\u00a0.   […]<\/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-11834","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\/11834","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=11834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11949,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11834\/revisions\/11949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}