{"id":14770,"date":"2021-08-20T17:01:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14770"},"modified":"2021-08-24T15:33:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T22:33:18","slug":"2021-august-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14770","title":{"rendered":"2021 August 20"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2021 August 20<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Message from Gordon Hart:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Hello, Butterfly Counters,<\/p>\n

The August count period starts Saturday, August 21 until Sunday, August 29. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending from Victoria to Brentwood Bay and Island View Road in Central Saanich, and west to Happy Valley and Triangle Mountain, and Langford Lake and Goldstream areas.<\/p>\n

You can submit a count any time over the count period, just use a separate form for each count and location. In the case of repeat or duplicate counts, I will use the higher numbers. To submit counts, please use the form from the VNHS website at https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=33<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

If you have difficulty with the form, just send me an email with the information.\u00a0\u00a0 hartgordon19 at gmail dot com<\/p>\n

Thank-you for submitting your sightings and good luck with your count.<\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart,<\/p>\n

Butterfly Count Coordinator,<\/p>\n

Victoria Natural History Society<\/p>\n

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Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:<\/p>\n

On Wednesday August 18:\u00a0 \u00a01 Pine White<\/strong> and 2 Woodland Skippers<\/strong><\/p>\n

on Thursday August 19:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a03 Pine Whites<\/strong> and 2 Woodland Skippers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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and at the light:<\/p>\n

on Wednesday\u00a01 Noctua pronuba<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

and today 1 Elophila icciusalis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Elophila icciusalis<\/em><\/strong> is a most interesting moth \u2013 its caterpillar lives underwater and feeds on pondweeds.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It looks like a problem to pronounce.\u00a0 I\u2019d pronounce the icci<\/em> part something like ick-see.<\/p>\n

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Elophila icciusalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Elophila icciusalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Aziza Cooper sends photographs of two grasshoppers from Panama Flats, August 19.<\/p>\n

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Melanoplus <\/em>(probably bi<\/em>vittatus<\/em>) (Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Melanoplus <\/em>(probably bi<\/em>vittatus<\/em>) (Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Jody Wells sends a picture of a moth from Brentwood Bay, August 18:<\/p>\n

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Sabulodes aegrotata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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and two photographs of a most fearsome-looking robber fly <\/strong>from Englishman River Estuary – Parksville Aug 17,\u00a0 kindly identified for us by Dr Rob Cannings as Scleropogon bradleyi<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Scleropogon bradleyi <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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Scleropogon bradleyi <\/em>(Dip.: Asilidae)\u00a0 Jody Wells<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 This is the time of year when we start to see several species of \u201cwoolly bear\u201d caterpillars.\u00a0 This one, from Swan Lake, is a penultimate instar of Hyphantria cunea<\/em>, <\/strong>the \u201cFall Webworm\u201d<\/strong>.\u00a0 The caterpillars form huge silken webs, often in alder or willow trees.\u00a0 It is amazing how these caterpillars, with their masses of long hairs, can walk around in these silken webs. \u00a0The head is downward in his photograph.<\/p>\n

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Hyphantria cunea <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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