{"id":3824,"date":"2017-04-08T07:52:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T14:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2017-04-08T15:58:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T22:58:46","slug":"april-8-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3824","title":{"rendered":"April 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  Viewers might be interested to read that yesterday a butterfly collector in England was given a conditional six-month suspended prison sentence and was made a subject of a Criminal Behaviour Order for killing and collecting a Large Blue butterfly.  The story (including a movie of a living Large Blue) is at<\/p>\n

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butterfly-conservation.org\/48-15454\/legal-history-made-as-butterfly-collector-sentenced.html<\/p>\n

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   Ken Vaughan writes:  I found this little geometrid outside my apartment entranceway on Friday afternoon (April 7) hunkering down out of the wind.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I find these pugs hard to identify, and I often call them Eupithecia annulata <\/em> more out of desperation than conviction.  This time I think it really is<\/span> <\/em>Eupithecia annulata<\/strong><\/em>, though I’d welcome confirmation – or otherwise! – from other moth-ers.  I’ve never seen one so green.  This is, I think, a very fresh specimen, and greenish colours often fade on older moths.<\/p>\n

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 Eupithecia annulata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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  Bill Katz sends a photograph of another pug problem – from Goldstream Nature House today (April 8).  Is it Eupithecia ravocostaliata <\/em><\/strong>or <\/strong>Eupithecia nevadata<\/em><\/strong>?  We’d very much like opinions (with reasons!) from other moth-ers.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Eupithecia nevadata\/ravocostaliata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Bill Katz<\/div>\n

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   Also at Goldstream, Bill photographed Hydriomena manzanita<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Hydriomena manzanita <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Bill Katz<\/div>\n

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