{"id":14742,"date":"2021-08-12T17:10:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14742"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:16:39","slug":"2021-august-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14742","title":{"rendered":"2021 August 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Here’s a caterpillar found by Andrew Jacobs at Pedder Bay on August 9 <\/p>\n

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Nadata gibbosa <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontidae) Andrew Jacobs<\/p>\n

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   Jochen Möhr sends this photograph of a moth from Metchosin:<\/p>\n

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Probably Mesapamea secalis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr<\/p>\n

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   Val George writes:  Here are two photos of a Black Saddlebags<\/strong> taken at McIntyre Reservoir yesterday morning, August 11.  On August 6 you commented that this species has been seen quite frequently this year and in 2020.  I think the number of sightings has indeed been rather unusual for a species that’s red-listed in BC.  I’ve seen them in about half a dozen places this summer. <\/p>\n

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Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)  Val George<\/p>\n

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Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata <\/em>(Odo.: Libellulidae)  Val George<\/p>\n

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   Many of us here in Victoria have been lamenting the scarcity of butterflies in the Victoria area.  Things are evidently different on Mount Washington, for Mike Yip writes:  I photographed 13 species on Mount Washington last week: Woodland Skipper, Pine White, Cabbage White, Margined White, Mylitta Crescent, Hydaspe Fritillary, Western Meadow Fritillary, Lorquin’s Admiral, Common Branded Skipper, Anna’s Blue, Mariposa Copper, Purplish Copper, and Hoary Comma. <\/strong>Two other friends also recorded Rocky Mountain Parnassian, Clodius Parnassian, Grey Hairstreak, <\/strong>and Sylvan Hairstreak.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Anna’s Blue Plebejus anna  <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Western Meadow Fritillary Boloria epithore <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Hydaspe Fritillary Speyeria hydaspe <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Mariposa Copper Lycaena mariposa <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Hoary Comma Polygonia gracilis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum comments on the names of some of these butterflies.<\/p>\n

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  No one seems to know who Anna was, or even if there was such a person.  The name Anna’s Blue seems to be taken from the probably meaningless anna<\/em> in the scientific name, much as we call Speyeria hydaspe <\/em> the Hydaspe Fritillary.   We should perhaps, therefore, call this butterfly the Anna Blue, and by the same token we should talk about the Anna Hummingbird and the Editha Checkerspot.   I doubt, however, if this suggestion is likely to take on.<\/p>\n

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   Some authors split the Branded Skippers into two species, the Common Branded Skipper Hesperia comma<\/em> and the Western Branded Skipper H. colorado<\/em>.  In this site I have been lumping them as a single species under the name Branded Skipper H. comma<\/em>.   If, however, they are to be treated as separate species, the one that occurs on Mount Washington is supposed to be the the Common Branded Skipper H. comma<\/em>, whereas the one that occurs on Cordova Spit in the Saanich Peninsula is supposed to be the Western Branded Skipper H. colorado<\/em>.    H. comma <\/em>also occurs in Britain, where it is known as the Silver-spotted Skipper, a name that is used for a quite different species in North America.   The word comma<\/em> in the scientific name has, of course, no connection with the comma (formerly anglewing) butterflies in the Nymphalidae.  What a complicated situation!<\/p>\n

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   The Mariposa Copper is called by some authors Reakert’s Copper.   The word Mariposa is, I believe, Spanish for butterfly.<\/p>\n

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  Boloria epithore <\/em>is called by some authors Clossiana epithore.<\/em><\/p>\n

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  <\/em>The Vancouver population of the Hoary Comma P. gracilis<\/em> is supposed by some authors to be a distinct species , the Zephyr Comma P. zephyrus<\/em>.  We do not follow that in this site.<\/p>\n

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  Juliet asked:  What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.<\/p>\n

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2021 August 12      Here’s a caterpillar found by Andrew Jacobs at Pedder Bay on August 9    Nadata gibbosa (Lep.: Notodontidae) Andrew Jacobs    Jochen Möhr sends this photograph of a moth from Metchosin:   Probably Mesapamea secalis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr    Val George writes:  Here are two photos of a Black […]<\/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-14742","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\/14742","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=14742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}