{"id":434,"date":"2015-08-28T02:49:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T09:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=434"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:01","slug":"august-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"August 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 August 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes: Way back on August 8 we received a photograph from Rosemary Jorna of a small but distinctly marked moth from near Kemp Lake.&nbsp; Its identification beat me.&nbsp; And then on August 25 Devon Parker sent a photograph of the  same species from Mount Wells Drive. Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying them for us as <strong><em>Choreutis diana<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; It is interesting to see from photographs of several butterflies and moths received recently how popular Pearly Everlasting seems to be as a nectar source.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can get an idea of the size of this small moth from  the Pearly Everlasting flowers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"752\" originalwidth=\"982\" name=\"\" title=\"EMICROD.jpg\" height=\"456.40733197556006\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55dfcc2b84cfd.jpeg\"> <\/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_image002.jpg\"><em>Choreutis diana <\/em>(Lep.: Choreutidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"858\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"FullSizeRender.jpg\" height=\"426.14\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55dfcc2b8517a.jpeg\"><\/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>Choreutis diana <\/em>(Lep.: Choreutidae)&nbsp; Devon Parker<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a female <strong>jumping spider <\/strong> <strong><em>Phidippus johnsoni<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>from Kemp Lake Road.&nbsp; Thanks to Robb Bennett for confirming the identification.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"842\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"jumping spider.jpg\" height=\"418.1933333333333\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55dfcc2b85ecc.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<em>Phidippus johnsoni <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae)&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Here is another <strong><em>Xestia xanthographa<\/em><\/strong>, from my Saanich apartment this morning. Although it doesn&#8217;t look very much like the August 22 specimen, the main difference is that in one of them the orbicular stigma  is prominent, and in the other it is obscured.&nbsp; If you ignore the orbicular stigma, the two specimens aren&#8217;t that unlike after all.&nbsp; Apparently the visibility of that spot is quite variable.&nbsp; The species has a Holarctic distribution, and I was surprised to  find, when I looked at my ancient notes, that I had reared the moth from caterpillar, and had made extensive notes on the caterpillar, in England in the 1950s. There it is known as the <strong>Square-spot Rustic<\/strong>.&nbsp; According to South (written more than 100 years ago): &#8220;The more or less square reniform, and the orbicular, marks are subject to a good deal of modification&#8230;&nbsp; the reniform may be well defined and prominent, and the orbicular  absent.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp; This very nicely describes the difference between today&#8217;s image and that of August 22.&nbsp; There is yet another photograph of this species on this site &#8211; exactly one year ago, on the posting for August 22, 2014.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is labelled &#8220;possibly&#8221;, but in  fact I believe it is correct.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1097\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"IMG_1987.JPG\" height=\"544.8433333333334\" width=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image55dfcc2b86432.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Square-spot Rustic <em>Xestia xanthographa<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 August 27 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes: Way back on August 8 we received a photograph from Rosemary Jorna of a small but distinctly marked moth from near Kemp Lake.&nbsp; Its identification beat me.&nbsp; And then on August 25 Devon Parker sent a photograph of the same species from Mount Wells Drive. 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