{"id":23447,"date":"2024-09-05T20:57:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T03:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23447"},"modified":"2024-09-05T22:09:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T05:09:02","slug":"2024-september-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=23447","title":{"rendered":"2024 September 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 September 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

We start today with photographs (by Ian Cooper, along the\u00a0 E&N & Galloping Goose Trails last night) of a magnificent insect.\u00a0 Hard to believe, until you look at it carefully and critically, that this is a moth. And no, it doesn\u2019t sting.\u00a0 It belongs to the Family Sesiidae (clearwing moths).\u00a0 Most of them are excellent at mimicking other insects; many of them, in particular, look very convincingly like Hymenoptera.\u00a0 The caterpillar of this one is hard to find (unless you are a raspberry farmer) and it is known as the Raspberry Crown Borer.\u00a0 The caterpillar lives inside the stalks and buds and even the roots of raspberries and blackberries.<\/p>\n

\"\"Male Pennisetia marginatum\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Sesiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Female Pennisetia marginatum\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Sesiidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Today, September 5, in Esquimalt Gorge Park I saw a Black Saddlebags<\/strong> and at least two Paddle-tailed Darners<\/strong>.\u00a0 The only butterflies I saw were Cabbage Whites<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 (Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 <\/strong>There were still several Cabbage Whites<\/strong> today at Mount View Park, off Carey Road.)\u00a0 Jeff and Kirsten Mills saw an Autumn Meadowhawk<\/strong> at Cowichan Station yesterday.<\/p>\n

The moth below appeared at Jeremy Tatum\u2019s apartment in Saanich this morning, September 5:<\/p>\n

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

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Here are four more creatures from Ian\u2019s work last night:<\/p>\n

\"\"Large Yellow Underwing \u00a0 Noctua pronuba\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Unidentified (so far) micro moth (Lep.)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Camel Cricket,\u00a0 Pristoceuthophilus celatus<\/em>\u00a0(Orth.: Rhaphidophoridae)\u00a0 Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

\"\"Anyphaena aperta<\/em>\u00a0(Ara.: Anyphaenidae) \u00a0Ian Cooper<\/p>\n

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Val George writes:\u00a0 This Lesser Yellow Underwing Noctua comes<\/em><\/strong> was on the wall of my Oak Bay house this morning, September 5.<\/p>\n

\"\"Lesser Yellow Underwing Noctua comes\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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2024 September 5 We start today with photographs (by Ian Cooper, along the\u00a0 E&N & Galloping Goose Trails last night) of a magnificent insect.\u00a0 Hard to believe, until you look at it carefully and critically, that this is a moth. And no, it doesn\u2019t sting.\u00a0 It belongs to the Family Sesiidae (clearwing moths).\u00a0 Most of […]<\/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-23447","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\/23447","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=23447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23451,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23447\/revisions\/23451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}