{"id":14956,"date":"2021-09-20T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14956"},"modified":"2021-09-20T18:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:08:01","slug":"2021-september-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=14956","title":{"rendered":"2021 September 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 September 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Black Witch!&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>&nbsp;Today the local bird hotline&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/bcvibirds\/topic\/85753993\">https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/bcvibirds\/topic\/85753993<\/a>&nbsp; reports a <strong>Black Witch <\/strong>&nbsp;discovered and photographed on September 19 by Klaus Emmaneel&nbsp; behind the Cedar Hill ballbark.&nbsp; I hope the bird hotline and the observer will not mind my taking the photograph from that site and re-posting it here.&nbsp; This gigantic tropical noctuoid moth is a rarity anywhere in Canada.&nbsp;&nbsp; In 2018 there were two records from Vancouver Island reported on this site.&nbsp; A recently dead specimen was found right next to the Royal British Columbia Museum on 2018 August 28, and a living specimen was found in Port Alberni &nbsp;on 2018 September 9.&nbsp; See the Invert Alerts for 2018 September 10 and 13.<\/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\/09\/0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Black Witch <em>Ascalapha odorata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &ndash; Erebinae)&nbsp; Klaus Emmaneel<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Today I saw a female <strong>Purplish Copper<\/strong>&nbsp; at the McIntyre Reservoir in Central Saanich.&nbsp; There were still several <strong>Cabbage Whites <\/strong>in the surrounding fields.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 September 20 &nbsp;&nbsp; Black Witch!&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Today the local bird hotline&nbsp; https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/bcvibirds\/topic\/85753993&nbsp; reports a Black Witch &nbsp;discovered and photographed on September 19 by Klaus Emmaneel&nbsp; behind the Cedar Hill ballbark.&nbsp; I hope the bird hotline and the observer will not mind my taking the photograph from that site and re-posting it here.&nbsp; This gigantic tropical [&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-14956","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\/14956","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=14956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}