{"id":12173,"date":"2020-09-10T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12173"},"modified":"2020-09-10T19:18:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T02:18:02","slug":"september-10-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12173","title":{"rendered":"September 10 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 September 10 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 When I arrived at UVic today I saw a Nepytia phantasmaria<\/em><\/strong> in the car park \u2013 a “lifer ” for me!\u00a0 Since Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin and Gordon Hart in Highlands had both reported them this year, I was about to ask (in this posting) whether this was a good year for the species.\u00a0 And then I received this amazing message from Gordon:<\/p>\n

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I checked the porch lights last night (evening of September 8), and was amazed to see the walls near the lights covered with Nepytia phantasmaria<\/em><\/strong>. I counted close to 60<\/strong> between two lights. There were about five Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong>, several Xanthorhoe <\/em> <\/strong>sp<\/strong>. and a few small crambid snout moths. Yesterday evening, September 9, there seem to be similar numbers plus an Autographa californica<\/em><\/strong>, and a large brown lacewing<\/strong>. I have attached some photos from September 8.<\/p>\n

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And Libby Avis writes from Port Alberni:<\/p>\n

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We’ve had exactly the same experience as Gordon. Counted about 100 two nights ago and last night we estimated around 150-200<\/strong> at the light, plus others all through the grass where Rick had set up a small low light trap. We get them every year here and numbers vary, but nothing like what we’ve been seeing this year. Duncan’s Conifer<\/em> Defoliators of BC <\/em>says that localised short-lived outbreaks have been recorded in the past. Powell and Opler also mention outbreaks in BC, so I guess that’s what we’re seeing this year. Quite a sight last night!<\/p>\n

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Reading from the left:<\/p>\n

Dark-winged fungus gnat (Dip.: Sciaridae)<\/p>\n

Nepytia phantasmaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)<\/p>\n

Male non-biting midge (Dip.: Chironomidae)<\/p>\n

Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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

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Square-spot Rustic Xestia xanthographa <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Jochen M\u00f6hr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n

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7 Agriphila <\/em><\/strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Euxoa difformis <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Lacinipolia pensilis <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

14 (!) Neoalcis californiaria\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lacinipolia pensilis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Euxoa <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Agriphila <\/em>(possibly straminella<\/em>) (Lep.: Crambidae) \u00a0Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Agriphila <\/em>(possibly straminella<\/em>) (Lep.: Crambidae) \u00a0Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Agriphila <\/em>(possibly straminella<\/em>) (Lep.: Crambidae) \u00a0Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Agriphila <\/em>(possibly straminella<\/em>) (Lep.: Crambidae) \u00a0Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 On September 8, I found a Purplish Copper<\/strong> near the footpath that parallels the beach. The butterfly was in the grass west of the trail and south of the ditch that passes the toilets.\u00a0 Also there were two Ringlets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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2020 September 10 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 When I arrived at UVic today I saw a Nepytia phantasmaria in the car park \u2013 a “lifer ” for me!\u00a0 Since Jochen M\u00f6hr in Metchosin and Gordon Hart in Highlands had both reported them this year, I was about to ask (in this posting) whether […]<\/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-12173","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\/12173","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=12173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12187,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173\/revisions\/12187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}