{"id":4348,"date":"2017-06-04T19:38:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4348"},"modified":"2017-06-05T15:58:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T22:58:14","slug":"june-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4348","title":{"rendered":"June 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 June 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>We start with three caterpillars.\u00a0 The first, on Ocean Spray from Mount Tolmie, is Synaxis jubararia<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>(Also known as Tetracis jubararia<\/em><\/strong>).<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Synaxis jubararia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The second, also on Ocean Spray from Mount Tolmie, is a noctuid.\u00a0 Beyond that we cannot go at present, although I am wondering if it might be Eurois occulta<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Unknown (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart found the next one on Snowberry in the Highlands.\u00a0 We are not sure whether it is a noctuid or an erebid.\u00a0 One possibility we thought of might be a species of Zale<\/em>, an erebid – but that is only a guess.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Unknown (Lep.: Erebidae or Noctuidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/div>\n

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Here is a spider from UVic, identified for us by Sean McCann.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Araniella displicata <\/em>(Ara.:\u00a0 Araneidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 And a fly from an Oak Bay garden, identified by Jeff Skevington.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Eristalis <\/em>sp. (Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ann Tiplady<\/div>\n

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This small bee, also from the Oak Bay garden, is kindly identified for us by Cory Sheffield as Lasioglossum <\/em>sp.<\/p>\n

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Lasioglossum\u00a0<\/em>sp. (Hym.: Halictidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Ann Tiplady<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Last fall, Gordon and Anne-Marie Hart found two huge caterpillars within a few feet-minute in space-time in their Highlands garden.\u00a0 The moth from one of them – a Cerisy\u2019s Eyed Hawk Moth – was shown on this site on May 2.\u00a0 The second moth emerged today – a female Polyphemus Moth. <\/strong>I hadn\u2019t seen one for some time and I had forgotten how truly huge and spectacular they are.\u00a0 I released this one at Munn Road, near the hydro station.<\/p>\n

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Polyphemus Moth Anthaea polyphemus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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From the large to the small\u00a0 –\u00a0 Aziza Cooper photographed Adela septentrionella<\/em><\/strong> at Camas Hill on June 3.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Adela septentrionella <\/em>(Lep.: Incurvariidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 Today, Sunday, June 4, the VNHS monthly butterfly walk went to Layritz Park. We found a total of 9 species of butterflies there and at our starting point of Mount Tolmie:<\/p>\n

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Painted Lady – 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Red Admiral – 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pale Tiger Swallowtail – 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Western Tiger Swallowtail-<\/strong> 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anise Swallowtail – 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Common (<\/strong>Vancouver Island<\/strong>) Ringlet – 40 or more<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>(Coenonympha tullia<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Cabbage White – 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Propertius Duskywing – 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Western Spring Azure – 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Some photographs of butterflies seen on the walk will appear in tomorrow\u2019s Invert Alert.<\/p>\n

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2017 June 4 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 We start with three caterpillars.\u00a0 The first, on Ocean Spray from Mount Tolmie, is Synaxis jubararia\u00a0 (Also known as Tetracis jubararia).\u00a0   Synaxis jubararia (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum \u00a0\u00a0 The second, also on Ocean Spray from Mount Tolmie, is a noctuid.\u00a0 Beyond that we cannot go at present, although I […]<\/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-4348","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\/4348","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=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}