{"id":342,"date":"2015-09-25T02:55:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T09:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=342"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:00","slug":"september-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"September 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">2015 September 24<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Today we have reports of insects large and small. Barbara Dashwood reports a large one &#8211; the caterpillar of a <strong>Polyphemus Moth <\/strong>at Gorge Road on September 22.&nbsp; And Scott Gilmore reports a small one.&nbsp; Scott writes:&nbsp; Yesterday at work in the men&rsquo;s washroom I saw a larger Moth Fly (family:&nbsp;Psychodidae) than I normally find in my bathroom at home. Turns out it is a <strong>Filter Fly,<\/strong>&nbsp;<em><strong>Clogmia albipunctata.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/em>Just goes to show it is always worth keeping your eyes out for insects no matter where you are! Bathrooms are the best place to find this rather interesting group.&nbsp; [Jeremy Tatum comments:&nbsp; We rarely have pictures of psychodids on this site, but, on looking back, I see that we did have an unidentified psychodid contributed by Ken Vaughan on September 19, 2012.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><!-- [if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id=\"_x0000_t75\" coordsize=\"21600,21600\"  o:spt=\"75\" o:preferrelative=\"t\" path=\"<a href=\"mailto:m@4@5l\">m@4@5l<\/a>@<a href=\"mailto:4@11@9\">4@11@9<\/a>@<a href=\"mailto:11@9@5xe\">11@9@5xe<\/a>\" filled=\"f\"  stroked=\"f\">  <v:stroke joinstyle=\"miter\"\/>  <v:formulas>   <v:f eqn=\"if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0\"\/>   <v:f eqn=\"sum @0 1 0\"\/>   <v:f eqn=\"sum 0 0 @1\"\/>   <v:f eqn=\"prod @2 1 2\"\/>   <v:f eqn=\"prod @3 21600 pixelWidth\"\/>   <v:f eqn=\"prod @3 21600 pixelHeight\"\/>   <v:f eqn=\"sum @0 0 1\"\/>   <v:f eqn=\"prod @6 1 2\"\/>   <v:f eqn=\"prod @7 21600 pixelWidth\"\/>   <v:f eqn=\"sum @8 21600 0\"\/>   <v:f eqn=\"prod @7 21600 pixelHeight\"\/>   <v:f eqn=\"sum @10 21600 0\"\/>  <\/v:formulas>  <v:path o:extrusionok=\"f\" gradientshapeok=\"t\" o:connecttype=\"rect\"\/>  <o:lock v:ext=\"edit\" aspectratio=\"t\"\/> <\/v:shapetype><v:shape id=\"_x0000_i1025\" type=\"#_x0000_t75\" alt=\"\" style='width:447pt;  height:394.5pt'>  <v:imagedata src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\\Users\\ADAMAN~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\msohtmlclip1\\01\\clip_image001.jpg\"   o:href=\"cid:8ad46fc3-955f-47ff-8868-df6a047976da\"\/> <\/v:shape><![endif]--><!-- [if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_25_1.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_25_1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_25_1-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_25_1-768x678.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_25_1-1024x905.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Filter Fly <em>Clogmia albipunctata <\/em>(Dip.: Psychodidae)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Scott Gilmore<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ann Nightingale sends a photograph of a <strong>Painted Lady <\/strong>from McIntyre reservoir, Central Saanich, September 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><!-- [if gte vml 1]><v:shape id=\"_x0000_i1026\" type=\"#_x0000_t75\"  alt=\"\" style='width:447.75pt;height:282pt'>  <v:imagedata src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\\Users\\ADAMAN~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\msohtmlclip1\\01\\clip_image003.jpg\"   o:href=\"cid:7abb494a-286e-463e-b174-a3d7be93dac6\"\/> <\/v:shape><![endif]--><!-- [if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_25_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_25_2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_25_2-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_25_2-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sept_25_2-1024x647.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;Painted Lady <em>Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)&nbsp; Ann&nbsp; Nightingale<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">&nbsp; Butterflies are becoming a little scarce now, although Jeremy Tatum counted 21 <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong> in the Martindale Valley yesterday.&nbsp; Please keep reporting these and other species, so we know the last dates of sightings.&nbsp; Jeremy writes that today he watched an adult <em><strong>Autographa californica<\/strong><\/em> nectaring at Red Clover in classical plusiine style in the Martindale Valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 September 24 Today we have reports of insects large and small. 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