{"id":14791,"date":"2021-08-23T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T22:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14791"},"modified":"2021-08-23T15:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T22:06:14","slug":"2021-august-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14791","title":{"rendered":"2021 August 23"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2021 August 23<\/strong><\/p>\n

   Colias <\/em>alert continued.   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes: Because I have difficulty in distinguishing Colias <\/em>species (I suspect I’m not the only one!) I asked Mark Wynja whether his suphur  (see yesterday’s posting) might possibly be a Western Sulphur (a non-migratory species that we get in the higher elevations on Vancouver Island) rather than the Clouded Sulphur (a migratory species, which is very rare here).  Mark replies:  Of the three likely Sulphurs the field marks match that of a female Clouded<\/strong>. I also sent the photos to both Mike Yip and Joachim Bertrands. They agree that it is a Clouded<\/strong> and not a Western. Joachim is very familiar with them as he has seen quite a number of Clouded this year in the BC interior. The silver center spot on underside hind wing of a Western is cleanly bordered by a single thin red circle and no little red satellite circle. The upperwings of the females are also different .<\/p>\n

   Mark also reports:   After my sighting on August 20th Mike Yip saw a Sulphur<\/strong> at beach along Deep Bay Drive on Aug 21, and I saw a female Clouded Sulphur<\/strong> on Aug 22 on Deep Bay Drive. This is almost 5 km away from where the initial photograph was taken on Aug 20th.<\/p>\n

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  Jeff Gaskin reports:  A Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong> was in the Cecilia Ravine Park,  and 14 Ringlets <\/strong>were  seen from Markham Road Camosun College lands and the Horticultural Centre lands yesterday, August 22.<\/p>\n

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  Richard Rycraft sends pictures of a Mint Moth Pyrausta californicalis <\/em><\/strong>from his garden.  There is indeed Mint in his garden although these moths were seen flying around Thyme.  Thyme and Mint are in the same botanical Family;  it would be interesting to know which plant these moths spent their caterpillar lives on.<\/p>\n

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Mint Moth Pyrausta californicalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)  Richard Rycraft<\/p>\n

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   Ben Buszka spotted this blue horned caterpillar in a backyard in Sooke.  It is Smerinthus ophthalmica<\/em>. <\/strong>This was at one time called Cerisy’s Eyed Hawk Moth S. cerisyi <\/em>– but that species has now been split into C. cerisyi <\/em>and C. ophthalmica, <\/em>and our  population is supposed to be ophthalmica. <\/em>As far as I know, writes Jeremy Tatum, it has not yet acquired an English name.  Suggestions, anyone?   Unfortunately this caterpillar will not survive – the several white spots on or near its head are eggs of a tachinid fly.<\/p>\n

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Smerinthus ophthalmica <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)  Ben Buszka<\/p>\n

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2021 August 23    Colias alert continued.   Jeremy Tatum writes: Because I have difficulty in distinguishing Colias species (I suspect I’m not the only one!) I asked Mark Wynja whether his suphur  (see yesterday’s posting) might possibly be a Western Sulphur (a non-migratory species that we get in the higher elevations on Vancouver Island) rather […]<\/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-14791","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\/14791","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=14791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}