{"id":11920,"date":"2020-08-18T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11920"},"modified":"2020-08-19T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T18:16:11","slug":"august-18-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11920","title":{"rendered":"August 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 August 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Oligia divesta<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Neoalcis californiaria\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Perizoma curvilinea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 304px; 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-139.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oligia divesta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 On August 11 and 12 I posted photographs of a penultimate instar caterpillar that I had originally misidentified as <em>Orgyia antiqua<\/em>. Now that it is in its final instar, I see that it is in a totally different Family.\u00a0 It is a noctuid, <strong><em>Actronicta impleta<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 466px; 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-140.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Actronicta impleta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 408px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.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-141.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Actronicta impleta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 498px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.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-142.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Actronicta impleta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 And now a few recent photographs from Ian Cooper.\u00a0\u00a0 We may be able to refine the identifications in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 509px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.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-143.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Coccinella septempunctata <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 506px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image012.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-144.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Misumena vatia<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Ara.: Thomisidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 527px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image014.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-145.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bombus melanopygus<\/em>\/<em>mixtus <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Annie Pang says not quite sure which of the\u00a0 two it is.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 506px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image016.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-146.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eristalis arbustorum<\/em> (Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jeff Skevington writes:\u00a0 That hourglass shape on the abdomen makes it either <em>Eristalis arbustorum<\/em> or <em>E. brousii<\/em>. The broad yellow base to the mid tibia makes it <strong><em>arbustorum<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 551px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image018.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-147.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Beewolf <em>Philanthus crabroniformis <\/em>(Hym.: Crabronidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Claudia Copley would like a dorsal view to be quite sure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 533px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image020.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-148.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Clearwing moth.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Synanthedon bibionipennis<\/em>\u00a0 (Lep.: Sesiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 August 18 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning: &nbsp; 1 Oligia divesta 2 Neoalcis californiaria\u00a0 1 Perizoma curvilinea &nbsp; Oligia divesta (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 On August 11 and 12 I posted photographs of a penultimate instar caterpillar that I had originally misidentified as Orgyia antiqua. 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