{"id":20241,"date":"2023-09-19T20:40:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T03:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20241"},"modified":"2023-09-19T20:40:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T03:40:49","slug":"2023-september-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=20241","title":{"rendered":"2023 September 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 September 19<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>We are nearing the end of summer \u2013 but there are still a few nice moths around.\u00a0 \u00a0Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have been asked more than once how to tell whether a moth is a geometrid or a noctuid.\u00a0 One possible answer, which works most (not all!) of the time, is that geometrids are landscape, while noctuids are portrait.\u00a0 This is illustrated by these two moths that I photographed today. The first was at my Saanich apartment.\u00a0 The second was from a caterpillar found on Gumweed at Island View Beach.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\"\"Heliothis phloxiphaga <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Also seen (but not photographed) yesterday, at Swan Lake Nature House, was a Common Emerald Moth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Val George photographed the moth shown below at his Oak Bay house today.\u00a0 This is a puzzler.\u00a0 It is obviously one of the difficult pair Triphosa haesitata <\/em>\/ Coryphista meadii\u00a0 <\/em>– but which one?!!!\u00a0 Libby Avis and Jeremy Tatum \u2013 after careful examination – agree that it is Coryphista meadii<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0 1.\u00a0 Conspicuous dark discal spot.\u00a0 2.\u00a0 Fourth tooth on outer margin of hind wing short.\u00a0 3.\u00a0 Slightly falcate wingtips.<\/p>\n

Libby tells me of another complication:\u00a0 Coryphista meadii\u00a0 <\/em>has had a name change \u2013 it is now Rheumaptera meadii<\/em>.\u00a0 For consistency with earlier photographs of the species within this site, I label it here with its old name.<\/p>\n

\"\"Coryphista meadii \u00a0<\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have seen several Banded Woolly Bears<\/strong> recently.\u00a0 October is their peak month.\u00a0 They are often abundant at Panama Flats.<\/p>\n

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2023 September 19 \u00a0\u00a0 We are nearing the end of summer \u2013 but there are still a few nice moths around.\u00a0 \u00a0Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I have been asked more than once how to tell whether a moth is a geometrid or a noctuid.\u00a0 One possible answer, which works most (not all!) of the time, is […]<\/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-20241","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\/20241","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=20241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20242,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241\/revisions\/20242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}