{"id":3129,"date":"2016-08-29T13:18:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T21:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:14:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:14:22","slug":"august-29-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3129","title":{"rendered":"August 29"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 August 29<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 <\/strong>Colias alert!<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>On August 24, Aziza Cooper saw a sulphur <\/strong>(exact species undetermined) on Gumweed at Turkey Head.<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin reports a Western Tiger Swallowtail <\/strong>on Mount Tolmie, August 11, and, on August 12, also on Mount Tolmie, 1 Red Admiral, 1 West Coast Lady, <\/strong>and 1 Painted Lady<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Annie Pang found a spider weaving a web on the side-view mirror of her car on August 24.\u00a0 Thanks to Robb Bennett for confirming its identification as Araneus diadematus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Araneus diadematus <\/em>(Ara.: Araneidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Aziza Copper photographed the micro moth shown below near the Garcia reservoir on August 26.\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying it as the Alfalfa Webworm Moth <\/strong>Loxostege cereralis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Alfalfa Webworm Moth Loxostege cereralis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The name cereralis<\/em> immediately raises a spelling question.\u00a0 Surely this is a misspelling for cerealis<\/em> \u00ad –\u00a0 a spelling that is sometimes seen in the literature.\u00a0\u00a0 The definitive way to determine the correct spelling is supposed to be to go back to the original scientific description, and see what spelling the author used.\u00a0 This is often easier said than done, and I didn\u2019t manage to do it for this moth.\u00a0 However, I found enough to convince myself that the cereralis<\/em> spelling is the correct, or at least the preferred, spelling.\u00a0 It is not named after what you eat for breakfast.\u00a0 Rather, it is named for Ceres (genitive Cereris), the Goddess of Agriculture.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Claudia Copley for identifying some recent photographs of grasshoppers and bush-crickets (katydids) that have been sent to Invertebrate Alert.\u00a0 The first was photographed\u00a0 recently by Paige Erickson-McGee.\u00a0 Claudia writes that it is Melanoplus <\/em><\/strong>sp., <\/strong>and probably M. femurrubrum<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>the very common Red-legged Grasshopper.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Melanoplus <\/em>(probably femurrubrum<\/em>)\u00a0 (Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Paige Erickson-McGee<\/div>\n

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Next is Meconema thalassinum<\/em><\/strong>, a bush-cricket, photographed by Cheryl Hoyle in Saanich on August 27.\u00a0 Claudia remarks that this is non-native, and a very recent invader.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Drumming Katydid Meconema thalassinum <\/em>(Orth.: Tettigoniidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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Claudia has also identified Cheryl Hoyle\u2019s grasshopper posted on August 5. Scroll down to that date to see the photograph and the identification.<\/p>\n

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2016 August 29 \u00a0 \u00a0 Colias alert!\u00a0 On August 24, Aziza Cooper saw a sulphur (exact species undetermined) on Gumweed at Turkey Head.   Jeff Gaskin reports a Western Tiger Swallowtail on Mount Tolmie, August 11, and, on August 12, also on Mount Tolmie, 1 Red Admiral, 1 West Coast Lady, and 1 Painted Lady. […]<\/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-3129","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\/3129","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=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15212,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions\/15212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}