{"id":1402,"date":"2015-03-08T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T06:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:10","slug":"march-08-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"March 08"},"content":{"rendered":"

2015 March 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a batch of eggs, found in North Saanich yesterday, of the Vapourer Moth <\/strong>Orgyia antiqua<\/em><\/strong>, also known as the Rusty Tussock Moth.<\/em><\/strong>  <\/em><\/strong>Also an ichneumon <\/strong>wasp from my Saanich apartment today, identified by Scott Gilmore as a species of Ophion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

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Ichneumon wasp Ophion <\/em>sp.  (Hym.: Ichneumonidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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  Jeff Gaskin writes:  Saturday March 7, there was a Mourning Cloak<\/strong> on Forshaw Road at Rhoda Lane on the Esquimalt side of the Gorge. This was near Esquimalt Gorge Park.<\/p>\n

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  <\/em><\/strong>Gordon Hart writes:<\/strong>  <\/strong> On Saturday March 7 in our yard, I saw the orange and black moth<\/p>\n

Archiearis infans<\/em><\/strong> again. Besides that one, I saw two Epirrhoe plebeculata<\/em><\/strong> and I got a picture of an even smaller geometrid with brown and black patterning. <\/em> We also saw at least two Satyr Commas<\/strong> and I think the Green Comma<\/strong> as well. I also saw my first Cabbage<\/strong> White<\/strong> of the year.<\/p>\n

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  Jeremy Tatum responds:  All three moths that Gordon mentions are early day-flying geometrids, although Archiearis<\/em> is far from typical, the caterpillar having three pairs of mid-abdominal prolegs. It feeds on alder, and needs bark on which to pupate.  Gordon’s smaller – and very pretty – geometrid is Enchoria lacteata<\/em>.  I have never found the caterpillar, but it is reputed to feed upon Miner’s Lettuce. <\/p>\n

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Archiearis infans <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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Enchoria lacteata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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  Jeremy adds:  I, too, saw my first Cabbage White<\/strong> today, at Lamont Road in Central Saanich, as, too, did Bill Katz, who photographed this one on Summit Hill.<\/p>\n

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Cabbage White Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)   Bill Katz.<\/div>\n

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2015 March 8      Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a batch of eggs, found in North Saanich yesterday, of the Vapourer Moth Orgyia antiqua, also known as the Rusty Tussock Moth.  Also an ichneumon wasp from my Saanich apartment today, identified by Scott Gilmore as a species of Ophion.   Vapourer Moth Orgyia antiqua […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","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\/1402","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=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}