{"id":14174,"date":"2021-06-11T15:58:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14174"},"modified":"2021-06-11T16:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T23:07:23","slug":"june-9-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14174","title":{"rendered":"June 9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  Yesterday I showed a large, brightly coloured, beautiful butterfly – an Anise Swallowtail.  Today we have a moth of perhaps a little less striking appearance, just 6 mm in length, and slightly more modest in coloration and pattern:<\/p>\n

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Athrips rancidella<\/em>  <\/em>(Lep.: Gelechiidae)   Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Have you ever noticed extensive silk webbing on Cotoneaster horizontalis<\/em>?  That is the work of the caterpillars of Athrips rancidella<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>  <\/strong> The moth shown above was reared from Cotoneasters in the garden of my Saanich apartment.<\/p>\n

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   Here are two chrysalides of comma <\/strong>butterflies from caterpillars found in the Greater Victoria area this year, the first on nettle, the second on willow:<\/p>\n

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Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Green Comma Polygonia faunus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Pupae of butterflies (only):<\/p>\n

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Singular:     One chrysalis.        No variations allowed.<\/p>\n

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Plural:      Two chrysalides.   Four syllables, stress on the second.   Excellent Greek.  Written form.<\/p>\n

         or     Two chrysalids.     Three syllables, stress on the first.       Perhaps the commonest spoken form.<\/p>\n

         or     Two chrysalises.    Four syllables, stress on the first.         Perfectly acceptable English plural.<\/p>\n

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 Chrysalid:    No such word, singular or plural.<\/p>\n

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  Talking of invertebrates, today I saw a crayfish <\/strong>Pacifastacus leniusculus <\/em><\/strong>in the ditch between Maber Flats and the polo field in Central Saanich.  To see one, a pair of polarizing sunglasses is immensely helpful to cut out the sky reflection – it would make all the difference between not seeing one and seeing one. A good quality polarizing filter in front of a camera lens would help to photograph one.<\/p>\n

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2021 June 10      Jeremy Tatum writes:  Yesterday I showed a large, brightly coloured, beautiful butterfly – an Anise Swallowtail.  Today we have a moth of perhaps a little less striking appearance, just 6 mm in length, and slightly more modest in coloration and pattern:   Athrips rancidella  (Lep.: Gelechiidae)   Jeremy Tatum   Have […]<\/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-14174","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\/14174","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=14174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}