{"id":17779,"date":"2023-03-29T21:17:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T04:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17779"},"modified":"2023-03-30T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T03:25:00","slug":"2023-march-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17779","title":{"rendered":"2023 March 29"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jules Thomson writes:\u00a0\u00a0 I saw an incredibly beautiful Mourning Cloak<\/b>, yesterday, in my back garden on the west slope of Mount Douglas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mourning Cloak\u00a0 Nymphalis antiopa <\/i>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes from the Highlands:\u00a0 We saw the first Green Comma<\/b> of the year on Tuesday March 28, a bit later than most years. There were also many bumble bees around, many of them looking like the one in the photograph below. I called it Bombus melanopygus<\/i><\/b>, although there are one or two other possibilities. [Added later:\u00a0 Thanks to Steven Roias for confirming that it is indeed\u00a0B. melanopygus<\/em>.] There were also some Enchoria lacteata<\/i><\/b> flying along with some smaller moths.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Green Comma Polygonia faunus\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Probably\u00a0 Bombus melanopygus\u00a0 <\/i>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nJeremy Tatum writes that he saw a Cabbage White <\/b>in Huxley Road, Victoria, today, March 29.\u00a0 Also there were three woodling moths <\/b>(Egira <\/i>sp.<\/b>) on the wall of his Saanich apartment this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Egira curialis <\/i>(Lep.:<\/span> Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Egira curialis <\/i>(Lep.:<\/span> Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Probably\u00a0 Egira crucialis <\/i>(Lep.:<\/span> Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes: These two moths were on the wall of my Oak Bay house this morning, March 29. Both are rather worn but my best guesses are: Egira crucialis<\/i><\/b> and Hydriomena
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\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 H. nubilofasciata, <\/i>yes, no problem.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i>The problem with E. crucialis<\/i> is that it is difficult to distinguish from E. simplex.\u00a0 <\/i>Libby Avis and I just had a look at my photograph above, and we believe it is E. crucialis<\/i>, <\/b>although neither of us is prepared to bet our pension savings on it.\u00a0 I\u00a0 (Jeremy) think Val\u2019s is the same species, and therefore probably\u00a0 crucialis.\u00a0 E. crucialis <\/i>is rather long in shape; E. simplex<\/i> is more compact.<\/p>\n

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Probably\u00a0 Egira crucialis <\/i>(Lep.:<\/span> Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Hydriomena nubilofasciata\u00a0 <\/i>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 March 29   Jules Thomson writes:\u00a0\u00a0 I saw an incredibly beautiful Mourning Cloak, yesterday, in my back garden on the west slope of Mount Douglas.   Mourning Cloak\u00a0 Nymphalis antiopa (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jules Thomson \u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes from the Highlands:\u00a0 We saw the first Green Comma of the year on Tuesday March 28, […]<\/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-17779","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\/17779","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=17779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17800,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17779\/revisions\/17800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}