{"id":11936,"date":"2020-08-19T10:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T17:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11936"},"modified":"2020-08-19T11:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T18:09:38","slug":"august-17-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=11936","title":{"rendered":"August 19 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I don’t normally include sightings and photographs of invertebrates from off-Island on this site, but Sharon Godkin sent a photograph of a tussock caterpillar from Powell River just at a time when I am interested in these caterpillars.\u00a0 First, here are photographs of two confidently-identified species, posted recently on this site and repeated here:<\/p>\n

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Orgyia antiqua <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

Foodplant: Black Cottonwood<\/p>\n

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Orgyia pseudotsugata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

Foodplant:\u00a0 Douglas Fir<\/p>\n

Now – an embarrassing admission!\u00a0 In an earlier version of this posting, I had presented the caterpillar below as another tussock. \u00a0 It is not even remotely related to the tussocks.\u00a0 It is a dagger (Genus Acronicta<\/em>) – a noctuid.<\/p>\n

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

Foodplant: Salmonberry<\/p>\n

And now, a photograph sent to Invert Alert this morning from Powell River by Sharon Godkin.\u00a0 I initially assumed that it was O. antiqua<\/em>, but now I’m not so sure.\u00a0 O.antiqua<\/em> feeds on a wide variety of foodplants \u2013 trees, shrubs, low-growing weeds, but this one was on Typha<\/em>, rather unusual for antiqua, <\/em>so maybe it’s something else.<\/p>\n

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Something else?\u00a0\u00a0 Sharon Godkin<\/p>\n

Foodplant Typha<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lastly, since I’ve cheated a bit this morning by going off Vancouver Island to Powell River for Sharon’s caterpillar, I can’t resist going a bit further and showing a photograph of a singularly beautiful Orgyia<\/em> sent to me by Dr David Wagner from (I think?) California:<\/p>\n

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Orgyia cana <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Lymantriinae)\u00a0\u00a0 David Wagner<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 To finish off this morning’s Invert Alert, here are two more views of Ian Cooper’s beewolf<\/strong> first shown yesterday:<\/p>\n

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Beewolf Philanthus crabroniformis <\/em>(Hym.: Crabronidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Beewolf Philanthus crabroniformis <\/em>(Hym.: Crabronidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I asked David Harris (Newhaven, Sussex, England) whether there are beewolves in England and he replied:\u00a0 Not only do we get Beewolves over here, but I think Newhaven must be the Beewolf city judging by the hundreds we have seen on our local nature reserve so far this year. I will dig out some photographs my friend Pete has taken of them recently. Locally some of ours have the yellow behind the eye rather than the more normal red. \u00a0And we found one the other day bigger than a Hornet. \u00a0Despite the text books saying they only feed on Honeybees, here this is just not true. I`m sure they must take some, but locally they seem to go for Yellow – legged Mining Bee and also linger well into November feasting on Ivy Bee. Again, not mentioned in the text books!<\/p>\n

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More this afternoon…<\/p>\n

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2020 August 19 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I don’t normally include sightings and photographs of invertebrates from off-Island on this site, but Sharon Godkin sent a photograph of a tussock caterpillar from Powell River just at a time when I am interested in these caterpillars.\u00a0 First, here are photographs of two confidently-identified species, posted […]<\/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-11936","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\/11936","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=11936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11947,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions\/11947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}