{"id":12303,"date":"2020-09-22T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12303"},"modified":"2020-09-23T08:15:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:15:38","slug":"september-22-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=12303","title":{"rendered":"September 22"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 September 22 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to Fall!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr’s photographs from Metchosin this morning (no photographs):<\/p>\n

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2 Drepanulatrix <\/em><\/strong>sp<\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

6 Ennomos magnaria\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Eupithecia<\/em><\/strong> sp<\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Fishia illocata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Neoalcis californiaria\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Nepytia phantasmaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Noctua pronuba<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

3 Pleromelloida cinerea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Aziza Cooper photographed this moth at McIntyre reservoir (Central Saanich) on September 21.\u00a0 She did not see the sulphur<\/strong> butterfly that was reported from there yesterday.\u00a0 Butterfliers are encouraged to keep looking and to do their best, if they see it, to identify it.<\/p>\n

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Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Ian Cooper writes:\u00a0 Submitting a small sample of numerous photos taken yesterday (September 20).\u00a0 All were photographed at various locations along the Galloping Goose trail. Thanks to Claudia Copley and Annie Pang for help with the identification of the grasshopper, and the bees, respectively.<\/p>\n

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European Paper Wasp Polistes dominula <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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European Paper Wasp Polistes dominula <\/em>(Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Female Agapostemon<\/em> sp. (Hym.: Halictidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Lasioglossum<\/em>?\u00a0 Halictus<\/em>?\u00a0 (Hym.: \u00a0Halictidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Melanoplus <\/em>sp. (Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Probably young Arion rufus <\/em>(Pul.: Arionidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes about:<\/p>\n

Identification of Orange Sulphur <\/strong>Colias eurytheme <\/em><\/strong>and Clouded Sulphur <\/strong>C. philodice<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Every few years or so we see sulphur butterflies in September or even October.\u00a0 Most are Orange Sulphurs, but the question always arises:\u00a0 Are any of them Clouded Sulphurs?\u00a0 In particular, what is the butterfly photographed by Mike McGrenere on September 20 (see September 21 morning)?<\/p>\n

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We rarely get a good opportunity to photograph the uppersides of these butterflies, so, unless we are certain from visual sighting that there is a lot of orange on the upperside, we have to rely on the nature of the spots on the underside.<\/p>\n

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On the underside of the hindwing there is a row of about five subterminal spots.\u00a0 The theory is:\u00a0\u00a0 On the Orange Sulphur these are small, dark, well-defined, sharp and black.\u00a0 On the Clouded Sulphur these are blurry, not at all well-defined, wishy-washy, brownish. \u00a0So much for the theory.<\/p>\n

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Kirsten Mills was recently in Ontario, where she saw lots of both species, and she found that the row of spots on its ventral side of the Orange Sulphur is very distinctive.\u00a0 She sends a photograph of each species to illustrate this:<\/p>\n

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Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae) Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae) Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 So \u2013 what is Mike and Barb’s butterfly\u00a0 (September 21 morning)?\u00a0\u00a0 Here it is again:<\/p>\n

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Sulphur Colias <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Pieridae) Mike McGrenere<\/p>\n

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Sulphur Colias <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Pieridae) Mike McGrenere<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten (who has seen many of both species recently, which is a great help) says Orange Sulphur.\u00a0\u00a0 Does anyone agree, or disagree?\u00a0\u00a0 I’m leaning (writes Jeremy Tatum) towards Orange Sulphur, too.\u00a0 You can just see the black border on the upperside of the wings.\u00a0 I think it is not broad enough for Clouded Sulphur.<\/p>\n

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Some good news is that Ron Flower has<\/em> seen what is probably Mike and Barb’s butterfly again today (September 22).\u00a0 Unfortunately the weather forecast suggests that we are unlikely to see it again \u2013 we have rain forecast for a few days.<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, September 21, Kirsten Mills and I saw a rather late Pine White<\/strong> at the hawk watch lookout at Beechey Head in East Sooke Park.\u00a0 Today, we spent some time looking for the sulphur out at Martindale flats but had no luck. \u00a0All we found for the whole Martindale valley including Welch and Hunt Roads, were Cabbage Whites<\/strong>, and that was a total of 38 butterflies.<\/p>\n

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  2020 September 22 Welcome to Fall! \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr’s photographs from Metchosin this morning (no photographs):   2 Drepanulatrix sp. 6 Ennomos magnaria\u00a0 1 Eupithecia sp. 1 Fishia illocata 1 Neoalcis californiaria\u00a0 2 Nepytia phantasmaria 2 Noctua pronuba 3 Pleromelloida cinerea 1 Xanthorhoe defensaria \u00a0 Aziza Cooper photographed this moth at McIntyre reservoir […]<\/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-12303","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\/12303","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=12303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12315,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303\/revisions\/12315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}