{"id":3828,"date":"2017-04-09T08:07:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T15:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2017-04-14T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T17:39:13","slug":"april-9-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3828","title":{"rendered":"April 9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 April 9<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Wanted!\u00a0\u00a0 Someone who can identify snails for us.\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna photographed the three snails below at Ayum Creek yesterday.\u00a0 The first is Monadenia fidelis<\/em><\/strong>, but we need help with the other two.\u00a0 Let us know:\u00a0 jtatum at uvic dot ca<\/p>\n

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\"\"Pacific Sideband Snail Monadenia fidelis <\/em>(Pul.: Bradybaenidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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\"\"Snail1 to identify.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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\"\"Snail 2 to identify.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 There are still very few butterflies around, although Mike McGrenere reported a Cabbage White <\/strong>from the corner of Martindale and Lochside today, and Bill Savale mentioned that he had also seen a Cabbage White<\/strong> on Mount Tolmie six days ago.<\/p>\n

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And just as I am typing this, a message comes in from Devon Parker, saying:\u00a0 I have my first butterfly of the year today. A Western Brown Elfin<\/strong> was flying around a group of small pine trees at my home in Esquimalt. It was landing at the ends of the branches for some reason.\u00a0 [I think this is the first report of the species to reach Invert Alert this year\u00a0 –\u00a0 Jeremy]<\/p>\n

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Devon continues:\u00a0 I also have a moth I found yesterday near my porch in Esquimalt.<\/p>\n

Jeremy writes:\u00a0 A puzzler!\u00a0\u00a0 My immediate assumption was that it was either Triphosa haesitata<\/em> or Coryphista meadii, <\/em>and I started to check all the supposed differences between these two similar geometrids.\u00a0 The relative sizes of the wiggles on the outer margin\u00a0 of the hindwing, the white tornal spot, the exact shape of the many crosslines, etc.\u00a0 In an earlier version of this posting, I opted for meadii<\/em>.\u00a0 Then Libby Avis came to the rescue with the amazing true identity of this moth. (Also correctly identified by Jeremy Gatten.)\u00a0 I shouldn’t have been looking at the wings at all.\u00a0 Just look at that stout, robust body!\u00a0 It’s not even a geometrid!\u00a0 It’s an erebid (in an earlier clssification a noctuid) – Zale lunata.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 The similarity of the wing shape and pattern of all three moths is presumably an example of convergent evolution.\u00a0 Quite remarkable!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Zale lunata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)\u00a0 Devon Parker<\/div>\n

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  2017 April 9 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Wanted!\u00a0\u00a0 Someone who can identify snails for us.\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna photographed the three snails below at Ayum Creek yesterday.\u00a0 The first is Monadenia fidelis, but we need help with the other two.\u00a0 Let us know:\u00a0 jtatum at uvic dot ca   Pacific Sideband Snail Monadenia fidelis (Pul.: Bradybaenidae)\u00a0 Rosemary […]<\/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-3828","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\/3828","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=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}