{"id":18772,"date":"2023-06-08T07:23:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18772"},"modified":"2023-06-08T21:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T04:38:18","slug":"2023-june-8-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=18772","title":{"rendered":"2023 June 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 June 8
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\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes: Yesterday, two small moths, which had been reared from caterpillars, emerged from their pupae.\u00a0 Although we were able to obtain photographs of pristine-fresh adult moths, this unfortunately did not enable us to identify them. The first is a pug \u2013 of the geometrid genus Eupithecia.\u00a0 <\/em>This is a large genus \u2013 <\/strong>a 1990 study found more than 60 species in Canada, and doubtless others have been added since.\u00a0 The caterpillars of many of them feed on the flowers of their foodplants.\u00a0 While a few adults have distinctive markings and are readily identifiable, many of them are frustratingly similar and are difficult to identify from a photograph.\u00a0 The caterpillar of the moth shown below was found on Rosa nutkana.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>The moth bears some resemblance to Eupithecia maestosa, <\/em>but we have not been able to identify it with any certainty.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"Unidentified pug Eupithecia <\/em>sp.\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)
\nJeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The second moth, shown as a caterpillar and as an adult, is a tortricid.\u00a0 The larval foodplant was Populus.\u00a0 <\/em>The moth bears some resemblance to the variable species Epinotia solandriana<\/em>, but that is by no means an identification, and we prefer at present to accept that the moth is for the moment unidentified.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Unidentified caterpillar (Lep.: Tortricidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

\"\"Unidentified moth (Lep.: Tortricidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Val George writes:\u00a0 On June7, I checked out the site where Ron Flower found the Field Crescents<\/strong> on June 5. There were at least six there.\u00a0 Also at the site was a Mourning Cloak<\/strong> and my first Essex Skipper<\/strong> of the year.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae)
\nVal George<\/p>\n

Mike Yip photographed this magnificent animal is his backyard in Nanoose, June 7:<\/p>\n

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\"\"Female Elm Sawfly Cimbex americana <\/em>(Hym.: Cimbicidae)
\nMike Yip<\/p>\n

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2023 June 8 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes: Yesterday, two small moths, which had been reared from caterpillars, emerged from their pupae.\u00a0 Although we were able to obtain photographs of pristine-fresh adult moths, this unfortunately did not enable us to identify them. The first is a pug \u2013 of the geometrid genus Eupithecia.\u00a0 This is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18772","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\/18772","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18781,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772\/revisions\/18781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}