{"id":2371,"date":"2016-05-07T19:35:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T03:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2016-05-07T20:44:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T03:44:17","slug":"may-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=2371","title":{"rendered":"May 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 May 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Yesterday we posted a picture of the caterpillar of the moth <strong><em>Coryphista meadii<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Coincidentally, today Rebecca Reader-Lee sends photos of two adults of the same species from the North Highlands.&nbsp; They both seem to satisfy Jeremy   Gatten&#8217;s criteria (see April 21) for identifying them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"634\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Barberry1.jpg\" height=\"314.88666666666666\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Barberry1.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Barberry Geometer <em>Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Rebecca Reader-Lee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"672\" originalwidth=\"1084\" name=\"\" title=\"Barberry2.jpg\" height=\"369.4760147601476\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Barberry2.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">Barberry Geometer  <em>Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Rebecca Reader-Lee<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; She also sends a photograph of another geometrid moth &#8211; <strong><em>Xanthorhoe defensaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"815\" originalwidth=\"1021\" name=\"\" title=\"X defensaria.jpg\" height=\"475.7492654260529\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/X-defensaria.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\"><em>Xanthorhoe defensaria  <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Rebecca Reader-Lee<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and a <strong>American Lappet Moth<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1192\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Lappet.JPG\" height=\"592.0266666666666\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lappet.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">American Lappet Moth  <em>Phyllodesma <\/em><em>americana<\/em><em> <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)&nbsp; <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rebecca Reader-Lee<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends a photograph of <strong><em>Autographa californica<\/em><\/strong>,<strong><em>  <\/em><\/strong>taken today.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"654\" originalwidth=\"800\" name=\"\" title=\"Autographa cal.jpg\" height=\"487.23\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Autographa-cal.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<em>Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Val George writes:&nbsp; This afternoon, May 7, there was a very fresh <strong>West Coast Lady<\/strong> on the reservoir at Mount Tolmie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"800\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"West Coast Lady.jpg\" height=\"397.3333333333333\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/West-Coast-Lady.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image012.jpg\">West Coast Lady  <em>Vanessa annabella <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp; Val George<\/div>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 May 7 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Yesterday we posted a picture of the caterpillar of the moth Coryphista meadii.&nbsp; Coincidentally, today Rebecca Reader-Lee sends photos of two adults of the same species from the North Highlands.&nbsp; They both seem to satisfy Jeremy Gatten&#8217;s criteria (see April 21) for identifying them. &nbsp; Barberry Geometer Coryphista meadii (Lep.: [&hellip;]<\/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-2371","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\/2371","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=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}