{"id":14538,"date":"2021-07-12T18:36:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14538"},"modified":"2021-07-14T16:01:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T23:01:45","slug":"2021-july-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14538","title":{"rendered":"2021 July 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Big Thank You.\u00a0 <\/strong>Following a recent reorganization of the UVic email system, we have had difficult problems getting the Invertebrate Alert daily postings up for the past couple of weeks or so.\u00a0 A big thankyou to Adam Taylor (VNHS Webmaster) and staff at the UVic Help Centre (Sage, Zo\u00eb, and the rest of the team), who put in a lot of hours and effort into keeping Invert Alert going, and eventually solving the problem.\u00a0 I think we are now back in business.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 There was a Painted Lady<\/strong> on the very summit of Mount Tolmie yesterday evening, July 11.<\/p>\n

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Here is another photograph of an adult Malacosoma disstria.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00ad<\/em> <\/strong>It is no more exciting in appearance than yesterday\u2019s, except that this time we can see the bipectinate antennae showing that it is, at last, a male.\u00a0 This one was only 13 mm from the head to the forewing apex.<\/p>\n

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

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Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s batch from Metchosin this morning fortuitously includes a male M. californicum<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

His batch also includes a Polyphylla <\/em><\/strong>beetle.\u00a0 Andrew Smith writes:\u00a0 The hair-like setae on the disc of the pronotum clearly indicate that this is Polyphylla crinita<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0Nice pic!<\/p>\n

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Male Malacosoma californicum <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Polyphylla crinita <\/em>(Col.: Scarabaeidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Protitame subalbaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Elder Moth Zotheca tranquilla <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes.\u00a0 I visited McIntyre reservoir today (Monday July 12).\u00a0 The Teasel is at full display now, but, strangely, the only butterflies there were Cabbage Whites <\/strong>(a-plenty).\u00a0 The Cabbage Whites were more interested in nectaring at Raphanus<\/em> rather than on the Teasel.\u00a0 Recall that Ron saw a Red Admiral there yesterday, so butterflies could arrive in force at any time \u2013 let us hope before the Teasels are cut down.<\/p>\n

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There were lots of dragonflies there.\u00a0 Eight-spotted Skimmers <\/strong>seemed especially numerous, though there were also several Black Saddlebags, <\/strong>which seem to be unusually widespread this year.<\/p>\n

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Nearby, I found these two caterpillars within inches of each other on adjacent willowherb plants –\u00a0 two different species of hawk moth:<\/p>\n

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White-lined Hawk Moth Hyles lineata <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Sphingidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Bedstraw Hawk Moth Hyles galii <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Rosemary Jorna writes that there was a small moth on her Bigfeaf Maple at Kemp Lake today.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 It is Clemensia umbrata<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Its caterpillar feeds on lichens.<\/p>\n

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Clemensia umbrata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Rosemary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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