{"id":16409,"date":"2022-08-27T18:33:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T01:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16409"},"modified":"2022-08-28T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T19:10:20","slug":"2022-august-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=16409","title":{"rendered":"2022 August 27"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Cheryl Hoyle seems to have discovered an effective moth attractant \u2013 ripe figs!\u00a0 Here are some moths from View Royal, August 20.<\/p>\n

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Catocala aholibah\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Erebinae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 \u2018Fraid we can\u2019t be sure what the two noctuid moths are \u2013 but they do serve to show how huge the Catocala<\/em> is.\u00a0\u00a0 Catocala<\/em>s\u00a0 can be difficult to determine to species, but I\u2019m pretty sure this is aholibah<\/em>.\u00a0 Here\u2019s another one:<\/p>\n

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Catocala aholibah\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Erebinae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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Xestia xanthographa <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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Libby Avis writes, of the next one:\u00a0 It is a Homorthodes<\/em> <\/strong>for sure \u2013 either communis<\/em> or fractura<\/em>. Hard to tell apart. I think more likely communis<\/em> <\/strong>which is the more common, but maybe best to leave it at genus.<\/p>\n

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Homorthodes communis<\/em>\/fractura <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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Homorthodes communis<\/em>\/fractura <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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We received two ant photographs on consecutive days.\u00a0 It is well to remember that not all ants by any means are Formica <\/em>\u00a0– they are scattered through many genera.\u00a0 Of the two below, one, a wood ant eyeing the ripe fig, is<\/u><\/em> Formica<\/em>;\u00a0 the other, a carpenter ant, isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Wood ant Formica<\/em> sp. (Hym.:\u00a0 Formicidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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Western Black Carpenter Ant\u00a0 Camponotus modoc <\/em>(Hym.: Formicidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Here are a few more of Ian Cooper\u2019s photographs, taken locally after dark in the last 30 days.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for identifying the cybaeid spider.<\/p>\n

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Cybaeus <\/em>(possibly signifer<\/em>) (Ara.: Cybaeidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Enoplognatha ovata <\/em>(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Jumping bristletail Pedetontus <\/em>(possibly saltator<\/em>) (Microcoryphia:\u00a0 Machilidae)<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Unidentified but probably an ichneumonid wasp (Hym.: Ichneumonidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Crane fly (Dip.: Tipulidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Crane fly (Dip.: Tipulidae) Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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2022 August 27 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle seems to have discovered an effective moth attractant \u2013 ripe figs!\u00a0 Here are some moths from View Royal, August 20. Catocala aholibah\u00a0 (Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Erebinae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 \u2018Fraid we can\u2019t be sure what the two noctuid moths are \u2013 but they do serve to […]<\/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-16409","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\/16409","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=16409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16427,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16409\/revisions\/16427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}