{"id":15886,"date":"2022-07-05T09:40:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15886"},"modified":"2022-07-05T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:55:51","slug":"2022-july-5-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15886","title":{"rendered":"2022 July 5 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 July 5 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I thought it might be of interest to gather in one place the three white moths that have appeared in recent weeks on this site.\u00a0 The excellent <em>Spilosoma<\/em> photograph is unattributed at the request of the photographer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cdfef42e.png\" width=\"396\" height=\"382\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Spilosoma virginica<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hyphantria-cunea-ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"469\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hyphantria cunea\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Leucoma-salicis-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"520\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Leucoma salicis \u00a0<\/em>Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And while on the subject of identification difficulties, it is often straightforward to distinguish between the Western and Pale Tiger Swallowtails, but I\u2019m sure many butterfliers have occasionally not been quite sure of a particular specimen.\u00a0 The photograph in today\u2019s (July 5) Times-Colonist, page B8, shows a Tiger Swallowtail that I cannot be 100 percent certain about.\u00a0 The butterfly is yellow enough for a Western, but the black stripes are fairly thick, and the crescent at the base of the tail is orange.\u00a0 I wonder if the two occasionally hybridize.\u00a0 The caterpillars are indistinguishable, and I have often wondered if they are genuiniely different species.\u00a0 \u00a0Comments from viewers would be welcome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand the butterfly below, \u00a0photographed at Esquimalt Lagoon June 30 by Aziza Cooper, looks, to my eye and to Aziza\u2019s, like a fairly clear <strong>Pale Tiger Swallowtail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/E-Bfly-Pale-Sw-tail-Esq-Lagoon1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pale Tiger Swallowtail <em>Papilio eurymedon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Spilosoma.pdf\">\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 July 5 morning \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I thought it might be of interest to gather in one place the three white moths that have appeared in recent weeks on this site.\u00a0 The excellent Spilosoma photograph is unattributed at the request of the photographer. Spilosoma virginica Hyphantria cunea\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum Leucoma salicis \u00a0Jeremy Tatum [&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-15886","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\/15886","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=15886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15893,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions\/15893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}