{"id":1335,"date":"2015-03-19T01:31:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T08:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:10","slug":"march-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"March 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 March 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Barbara Begg reports a very early <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong> from Kersey Road, Central Saanich, February 17.&nbsp; And a <strong>Western Spring Azure <\/strong>(the first we have heard of this year) from Wain Road, Central Saanich, March 14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>  <w:WordDocument>   <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>   <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>   <w:PunctuationKerning\/>   <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>   <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>   <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>   <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>   <w:Compatibility>    <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>    <w:SnapToGridInCell\/>    <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>    <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>    <w:DontGrowAutofit\/>   <\/w:Compatibility>   <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>  <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>  <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\">  <\/w:LatentStyles> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object  classid=\"clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D\" id=ieooui><\/object> \n\n<style> st1\\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <\/style>\n\n <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> \n\n<style>  \/* Style Definitions *\/  table.MsoNormalTable \t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\"; \tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; \tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0; \tmso-style-noshow:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; \tmso-para-margin:0in; \tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-ansi-language:#0400; \tmso-fareast-language:#0400; \tmso-bidi-language:#0400;} <\/style>\n\n <![endif]--> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Jeremy Tatum writes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>I am often given a verbal description of a moth and asked to identify it from the verbal description.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>With more than 12,000 moths in North America, this can be quite a challenge.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>They are nearly all brown and grey with spots and streaks and blotches.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>It helps to know the words to use when giving a description, and how to describe the various markings and where these markings are on the wings.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Thus do you know where to look for a tornal spot, or an antemedial transverse line, or what the costa is, or the claviform stigma?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I have prepared a three-page tract on how to describe the pattern on a moth&#8217;s wings, with diagrams showing where these things are, and the apex and the base, and a very few more, with a few diagrams,  and a photo of a local noctuid moth nicely showing the reniform, orbicular and claviform stigmata.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;<\/span>Unfortunately my computer skills aren&#8217;t up to posting it on this web site (I tried!), and I&#8217;m not sure how appropriate it would be anyway.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>But if any viewer thinks it might be useful or helpful, let me know (jtatum at uvic.ca) and I&#8217;m pretty sure I can email it to you! 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