{"id":3156,"date":"2016-09-06T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T23:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2016-09-06T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T23:27:42","slug":"september-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3156","title":{"rendered":"September 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2016 September 06<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Jannaca Chick sends a photograph of a  <strong><em>Catocala<\/em><\/strong> from Pedder Bay, September 5.&nbsp;&nbsp; Our commonest <em>  Catocala <\/em>here is <em>C. aholibah<\/em>,&nbsp; though I can&#8217;t be completely certain that this isn&#8217;t the rather similar  <em>C. allusa<\/em>, which also occurs here.&nbsp; The caterpillars are distinct, with <em>  aholibah <\/em>feeding on oak, and <em>allusa <\/em>&nbsp;on willow.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be cautious, and label it  <strong><em>Catocala aholibah\/allusa<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/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;\">  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"32\" originalwidth=\"32\" name=\"\" title=\"Catocala1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Catocala1-1.jpg\"><br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Catocala aholibah\/allusa<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Catocalinae)&nbsp; Jannaca Chick<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends photographs of two bees, with identifications by Linc Best.&nbsp; The first, photographed on August 17, is  <strong><em>Megachile fidelis. <\/em><\/strong>The second, from Gorge Park, September 1, is a species of  <strong><em>Melissodes<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"714\" originalwidth=\"985\" name=\"\" title=\"Megachile fidelis.jpg\" height=\"371.13502538071066\" width=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Megachile-fidelis-1.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\"><em>Megachile fidelis  <\/em>(Hym.:&nbsp; Megachilidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"751\" originalwidth=\"973\" name=\"\" title=\"Melissodes1.jpg\" height=\"395.1819116135663\" width=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Melissodes1.jpg\">  <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Melissodes <\/em>sp. (Hym.:&nbsp; Apidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"805\" originalwidth=\"911\" name=\"\" title=\"Melissodes3.jpg\" height=\"452.42590559824373\" width=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Melissodes3.jpg\"><br \/>  <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Melissodes <\/em>sp. (Hym.:&nbsp; Apidae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 September 06 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Jannaca Chick sends a photograph of a Catocala from Pedder Bay, September 5.&nbsp;&nbsp; Our commonest Catocala here is C. aholibah,&nbsp; though I can&#8217;t be completely certain that this isn&#8217;t the rather similar C. allusa, which also occurs here.&nbsp; The caterpillars are distinct, with aholibah feeding on oak, [&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-3156","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\/3156","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=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}