{"id":14856,"date":"2021-09-04T10:05:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14856"},"modified":"2021-09-04T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T17:08:08","slug":"2021-september-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14856","title":{"rendered":"2021 September 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2021 September 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Monthly Butterfly Walk scheduled for Sunday is cancelled.<\/u>  See notice on September 2 Alert.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a Woodland Skipper<\/strong> in Metchosin nectaring on a — Wanted! – a Botanist to tell us what it is nectaring on!<\/p>\n

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Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Jochen Möhr<\/p>\n

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  Jochen had these moths at his Metchosin home this morning<\/p>\n

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1 Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Nepytia phantasmaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

3 Noctua pronuba<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Orgyia antiqua <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Here are photographs of a few of them:<\/p>\n

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Nepytia phantasmaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr<\/p>\n

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Orgyia antiqua <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae) Jochen Möhr<\/p>\n

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Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr<\/p>\n

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Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr<\/p>\n

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   As a welcome bonus, Jochen writes:  This morning a very docile and tolerant Mourning Cloak<\/strong> had taken seat on my chair to sun itself.  I am grateful.<\/p>\n

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Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jochen Möhr<\/p>\n

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Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jochen Möhr<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum photographed some moths at the Goldstream Park Nature House this morning.<\/p>\n

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Nepytia phantasmaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Caripeta aequaliaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy also writes: Also at the Nature House was what I think is the largest caddisfly I have ever seen – out of camera range, unfortunately.  Possibly  Dicosmoecus atripes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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   <\/em>Gordon Hart writes:  I dropped by Swan Lake yesterday and saw a Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong> near Tuesday Pond – likely the same one Jeff saw.  There was one Woodland Skipper<\/strong> on Gumweed and several bee species. <\/p>\n

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Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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2021 September 3   Monthly Butterfly Walk scheduled for Sunday is cancelled.  See notice on September 2 Alert.      Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a Woodland Skipper in Metchosin nectaring on a — Wanted! – a Botanist to tell us what it is nectaring on! Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Jochen Möhr […]<\/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-14856","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\/14856","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=14856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}