{"id":1332,"date":"2015-03-16T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T04:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:10","slug":"march-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"March 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

2015 March 16<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>         <\/strong>Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of Emmelina monodactyla<\/em><\/strong> from Kemp Lake Road, March 15.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Emmelina monodactyla <\/em>(Lep.: Pterophoridae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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         Bill Katz sends a photo of a micro moth from Goldstream, March 13, and we are grateful to Eric LaGasa for identifying it as Acleris <\/em>sp., and probably an unusually early Acleris britannia<\/em><\/strong> or Acleris schalleriana.<\/strong>
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Probably Acleris britannia\/schalleriana <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae)  Bill Katz<\/div>\n

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   Jeremy Gatten writes:  I just returned from three and a half weeks in Colombia and I’ve had the lights on to enjoy the action that the warm weather has brought.  I have had the following species (although not 100% on the Xanthorhoe<\/em> and Venusia<\/em>):<\/p>\n

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Hydriomena nubilofasciata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eupithecia ravocostaliata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eupithecia graefii<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eupithecia olivacea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eupithecia gilvipennata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Venusia pearsalli<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Hydriomena manzanita<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Emmelina monodactyla<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Agonopterix alstroemeriana<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Orthosia praeses<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Orthosia hibisci<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Orthosia transparens<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Egira crucialis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Egira rubrica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cerastis enigmatica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Autographa californica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lithophane innominata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hypena californica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nola minna<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

   He continues: I have pictures of most things, but won’t be back until Wednesday evening. Which species would be most entertaining for you to see?<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum responds:   My!   What a choice!    How can I possibly answer that one?  I can’t think of any I wouldn’t<\/span> want.  So – Viewers of this site – please send your preferences to me  (jtatum at uvic.ca) and I’ll pass them on to Jeremy Gatten.  In the meantime, I, too, have difficulty with Venusia <\/em>and Xanthorhoe<\/em>.  I also have difficulty with E. olivacea\/annulata<\/em> so it would be nice to see olivacea<\/em> if Jeremy G. is 100 percent sure.  I can’t remember if E. rubrica<\/em> has appeared on this site before; I think it probably has, but very rarely.  Hypena<\/em> is another difficult one, and it would be nice to see a certain ID. Otherwise send ’em all, perhaps at a rate of three per day!<\/p>\n

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   We have heard from Scott Gilmore in Upper Lantzville, who earlier sent us pictures of a caterpillar and pupae from Ceanothus<\/em>, and which we suspected were Drepanulatrix<\/em><\/strong>.  One of the moths has now emerged, and it is indeed Drepanulatrix<\/em> – but the question is – which one?  Both Scott and I (Jeremy T) believe it is D. monicaria<\/em><\/strong>– the only problem with that being that the species is apparently not on the Canadian list.  So this is very exciting!  <\/p>\n

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Drepanulatrix <\/em>sp. (probably monicaria<\/em>) (Lep.: Geometridae)  Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n

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   Scott also writes:  Other interesting sightings have been finding some interesting beetles under bark of rotting birch and Douglas Fir in the forest above my house.  These include:<\/p>\n

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Clinidium calcaratum<\/em><\/strong>, the only member of the Rhysodidae (wrinkled bark beetles) found in BC.<\/p>\n

Rhyncolus brunneus<\/em><\/strong>,<\/p>\n

an Ambrosia beetle, perhaps from the genus Xyleborus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

My son found an Ironclad beetle, Phellopsis porcata. <\/em><\/strong>Family<\/em> <\/strong><\/em>Zopheridae<\/p>\n

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At my backdoor I found the introduced ant mimic Rugilus orbiculatus <\/em><\/strong>(a staphylinid) and nearby was a Plate-thigh beetle (Nycteus infumatus<\/em><\/strong>) which has the ability to “jump” (picture family Eucinetidae).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Clinidium calcaratum <\/em>(Col.: Rhysodidae) Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n

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\"\"Rhyncolus brunneus <\/em>(Col.: Curculionidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Ambrosia beetle. Perhaps Xyleborus <\/em>sp. (Col.: Curculionidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Phellopsis porcata<\/em>  <\/em>(Col.:  <\/em><\/strong>Zopheridae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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\"\"Rugilus orbiculatus <\/em>(Col.: Staphylinidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Nycteus infumatus <\/em>(Col.: Eucinetidae) Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n

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2015 March 16               Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of Emmelina monodactyla from Kemp Lake Road, March 15.   Emmelina monodactyla (Lep.: Pterophoridae)  Rosemary Jorna            Bill Katz sends a photo of a micro moth from Goldstream, March 13, and we are grateful to Eric LaGasa for identifying it as Acleris sp., […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","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=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}