{"id":2194,"date":"2016-04-21T19:50:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2016-04-21T20:51:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T03:51:41","slug":"april-21-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2194","title":{"rendered":"April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeremy Gatten writes from Saanichton:   I had my first Coryphista meadii<\/em><\/strong> last night (April 20) – two or three actually.  <\/p>\n

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   This species can be difficult to distinguish from Triphosa haesitata, <\/em> so Jeremy Gatten has sent us a straight photograph of Coryphista meadii<\/em> plus a copy of the photograph in which he has circled two features that he finds to be indicative of Coryphista meadii<\/em>, namely the black discal spots and the short tooth on the hindwing margin (gives an uneven pattern, whereas Tissue Moth seems regularly toothed).<\/p>\n

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\"\"Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Gatten<\/div>\n

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Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Gatten<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes that he, too, had his first Coryphista meadii <\/em> of the year on April 21 – as in the photograph below.  Probably not much help for identification! <\/p>\n

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\"\"Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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   They were on the underside of a Mahonia <\/em>leaf near Munn Road.<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Gatten also found a micro moth, which he describes as "quite a nice sight last night – it is Retinia picicolana<\/em><\/strong>."  He writes:  I don’t know anything about its life history, but it appears to have a distribution from southern BC through California (not sure if it extends beyond to the south).  The fuzzy little orange head gives it a rather endearing quality.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Retinia picicolana <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae)   Jeremy Gatten<\/div>\n

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   [Jeremy Tatum remarks:  I have had one or two tiny micro moths in my apartment recently, also with fuzzy little orange heads.  But in that case (Tineola besselliella<\/em>, the Common Clothes Moth) neither the fuzzy little orange head nor anything else gives it, in my view, any endearing quality!]<\/p>\n

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  Jeremy Tatum writes:  Today, I did a Butterfly Count along the Pathfinder Trail (along one of the hydro lines off Munn Road).  Besides Sara Orangetips <\/strong>and Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, I encountered several (not quite all) of the local Small Brown Jobs – Western Brown Elfin, Moss’s Elfin, Cedar Hairstreak, Two-banded Grizzled Skipper, Propertius Duskywing.<\/strong>  <\/strong>I also saw several day-flying <\/strong>geometrids:  Mesoleuca gratulata, Rheumaptera hastata, Leptostales rubromarginaria, <\/em>Epirrhoe plebeculata.<\/em>
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   <\/strong>Jody Wells spotted a California Tortoiseshell <\/strong> on Mount Douglas on April 20, as he writes: “begging to be photographed”.  <\/p>\n

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\"\"California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/div>\n

Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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\"\"California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/div>\n

Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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2016 April 21      Jeremy Gatten writes from Saanichton:   I had my first Coryphista meadii last night (April 20) – two or three actually.       This species can be difficult to distinguish from Triphosa haesitata, so Jeremy Gatten has sent us a straight photograph of Coryphista meadii plus a copy of the photograph […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194","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\/2194","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=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}