{"id":14732,"date":"2021-08-10T18:31:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T01:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14732"},"modified":"2021-08-10T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T01:37:10","slug":"2021-august-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14732","title":{"rendered":"2021 August 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 August 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Butterflies are by now becoming quite scarce, except for <strong>Woodland Skippers <\/strong>and <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong>, and there are probably still a few <strong>Pine Whites<\/strong> around in Metchosin and Colwood. Jeff Gaskin reports that on August 9 there was a rather late <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> by the Summit Hill reservoir, while Gordon Hart saw a <strong>Lorquin&rsquo;s Admiral <\/strong>in the Highlands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We have seen many a Large Yellow Underwing moth on this site, so we may well wonder, if there is a Large one, is there such a thing as a Lesser one?&nbsp; There is indeed, writes Jeremy Tatum &nbsp;&ndash; and a <strong>Lesser Yellow Underwing<\/strong> was in my bedroom in Saanich today.&nbsp; The last one to appear on this site was in 2015.&nbsp; Both species, like myself, are invasive European introductions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"553\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lesser Yellow Underwing <em>Noctua comes <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; An accidental overexposure, which won&rsquo;t win any prizes, shows the markings and pattern a bit better:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_4053.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"571\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lesser Yellow Underwing <em>Noctua comes <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 August 10 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Butterflies are by now becoming quite scarce, except for Woodland Skippers and Cabbage Whites, and there are probably still a few Pine Whites around in Metchosin and Colwood. Jeff Gaskin reports that on August 9 there was a rather late Western Tiger Swallowtail by the Summit Hill reservoir, while Gordon Hart [&hellip;]<\/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-14732","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\/14732","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=14732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}