{"id":14478,"date":"2021-07-05T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T23:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14478"},"modified":"2021-07-05T16:19:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T23:19:22","slug":"2021-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14478","title":{"rendered":"2021 July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2021 July 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have been trying for ages to photograph a male Malacosoma disstria – <\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>but so far they have all been females! \u2013<\/p>\n

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Female Malacosoma disstria <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 This Red Admiral<\/strong> is from a caterpillar found near Blenkinsop Lake.\u00a0 I released it on Mount Tolmie in the hope that we might see it during this afternoon\u2019s Butterfly Walk!<\/p>\n

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Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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This caterpillar was found in Layritz Park during the VNHS July Butterfly Walk today.\u00a0 It is Nycteola frigidana <\/em>or N. cinereana.\u00a0 <\/em>The former is supposed to feed on Salix;\u00a0 <\/em>the latter on Populus<\/em>.\u00a0 The ones on June 25 were on Salix<\/em>, so I labelled them probably\u00a0 frigidana.\u00a0 <\/em>This one was on Populus<\/em>, so I\u2019ll label it probably cinereana<\/em>.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see if this is correct when the adult moths emerge.\u00a0 Note the very fine hairs on the caterpillar.<\/p>\n

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Nycteola <\/em>probably cinereana <\/em>(Lep.: Nolidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart sends a photograph of a tiger swallowtail<\/strong> .\u00a0 The crescent at the base of the \u201ctail\u201d is a mixture of yellow and orange, which illustrates nicely why sometimes these tiger swallowtails can be difficult to separate.\u00a0 Nevertheless I think we can confidently say that this one is a Western Tiger Swallowtail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Western Tiger Swallowtail\u00a0 Papilio rutulus <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 There was a brand new California Tortoiseshell<\/strong> at UVic this afternoon, July 4.\u00a0 It was seen along the trail on the east side of the campus. The trail cuts across University Drive and is directly across from Finnerty Gardens.\u00a0 A lot of Lorquin’s Admirals<\/strong> – \u00a025 or more I’m guessing, as well as several Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> were also seen.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum saw a Mourning Cloak <\/strong>at UVic this afternoon, July 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2021 July 4 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have been trying for ages to photograph a male Malacosoma disstria – \u00a0but so far they have all been females! \u2013 Female Malacosoma disstria (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum \u00a0\u00a0 This Red Admiral is from a caterpillar found near Blenkinsop Lake.\u00a0 I released it on Mount Tolmie in […]<\/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-14478","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\/14478","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=14478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14484,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478\/revisions\/14484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}