{"id":4804,"date":"2017-08-17T19:30:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T02:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2017-08-21T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T19:30:10","slug":"august-17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4804","title":{"rendered":"August 17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Notice.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>In an earlier notice, because of my clumsy grammar, I may have given a quite erroneous impression to contributors that, in order to submit a photograph to this site, you must identify the insect you have photographed.\u00a0 Nothing could be further from my intent, and I hope no one has been deterred from submitting photographs because of this.\u00a0 All viewers are more than welcome to submit their photographs (or indeed just verbal observations with no photograph).\u00a0 Very often you may not know the name of the insect – in which case I shall endeavour (not always successfully) to find out what it is.\u00a0 What I do<\/span> ask, however, is that, if you do happen to know the identity of the insect you have photographed (which is quite often the case), please let me know what it is, or what you believe it is, so that I don\u2019t have to spend time identifying an insect whose identity you already know.<\/p>\n

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While on the subject of names, certain conventions are usually observed in the printing of scientific names.\u00a0 Please don\u2019t think that you have to adhere rigidly to these – that is my job as Editor.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want anyone to be put off by feeling that they have to go into all this minute detail. But, for those who are interested, I describe the conventions here – and I shall admit that it does save me a bit of editorial time when it is done right!<\/p>\n

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A scientific name has two parts, a genus (plural genera) and a species (plural species).<\/p>\n

Thus the Painted Lady is Vanessa cardui<\/em>.\u00a0 The name is customarily printed in italic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The name of the genus always starts with a capital letter.\u00a0 The name of the species always starts with a small letter.\u00a0 No exceptions.\u00a0 At all. \u00a0Ever.\u00a0\u00a0 Hyphens, accents and other such marks are to be discouraged.\u00a0 Originally, scientific names were Latin.\u00a0 That is no longer strictly the case.\u00a0 Nevertheless it is preferred if scientific names at least look sort of Latin, and obey the rules of Latin grammar.\u00a0 The genus name for a common spider is Eratigena<\/em>.\u00a0 That\u2019s not Latin.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually a meaningless anagram of another spider genus Tegenaria<\/em>, though it does at least make some pretence of looking vaguely Latin.\u00a0 Another example:\u00a0 the noctuid moth species sulinaris<\/em> is merely an anagram of a genuine Latin species name, insularis<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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In any case, it is important always to check the exact spelling.\u00a0 A mere approximation to the spelling just won\u2019t do!<\/p>\n

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Sometimes the species name is an adjective that qualifies the genus name, a noun.\u00a0 In that case it is important that the genus and species names agree in number and gender.\u00a0 However, it is not always the case that the two parts of the name are noun and qualifying adjective.\u00a0 They may, for example, be two nouns in apposition – in which case there is obviously no requirement for agreement in number and gender.<\/p>\n

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To be continued in a future posting…\u00a0\u00a0 In the meantime, don\u2019t worry about it.\u00a0 That\u2019s the Editor\u2019s job, and I\u2019ll do my best to look after it. Now let\u2019s get on with today\u2019s contributions.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Aziza Cooper writes:\u00a0 At McIntyre Reservoir, I saw two sulphurs<\/strong> yesterday, August 16, and I have a photo of one. Two Painted Ladies <\/strong>were still there and one Woodland Skipper<\/strong>, plus 25 Cabbage Whites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 <\/strong>Our default sulphur is the Orange <\/strong>Sulphur<\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong> However, the Clouded Sulphur is a possibility and hard to distinguish from the Orange Sulphur, so Aziza\u2019s caution is well justified.\u00a0 I think it is safe to label this one as an Orange <\/strong>Sulphur<\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong> The upperside black border (faintly visible through the wings) is broad, and the hindwing underside spots are conspicuous. \u00a0And Ron\u2019s recent photograph of a sulphur at that location showed a bit of the upperside orange.<\/p>\n

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Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Today, Aug. 17, at McIntyre Road Reservoir Kirsten Mills and I saw the following :\u00a0 3 Purplish Coppers, 3 Painted Ladies, 3 Ringlets or Large Heaths, 3 <\/strong> Woodland<\/strong> Skippers and over 80 Cabbage Whites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At the corner of Sayward Road and the Pat Bay Highway was one Pine White<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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One Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<\/strong> remains in my mother\u2019s backyard on Wascana Street in the Gorge neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

Nathan Fisk writes from Fort Rodd Hill Nursery:\u00a0 I don’t think I’ve ever seen a red grasshopper before so this one really caught my eye. It was resting among the Silene scoulerii<\/em>. Thanks to Claudia Copley for identifying it as Melanoplus <\/strong><\/em>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The small bee was just a few feet away feeding on White-topped Aster. [We thank Sean McCann for identifying it for us as a Small Carpenter Bee<\/strong> of the genus Ceratina<\/em><\/strong>.] I love that you can see its feet covered in pollen. The asters are quite the show with Bombus<\/em><\/strong> vosnesenskii<\/em><\/strong>, Woodland Skippers<\/strong> and one other Bombus <\/em><\/strong>species.<\/p>\n

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Grasshopper\u00a0Melanoplus\u00a0<\/em>sp. (Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n

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Small Carpenter Bee Ceratina <\/em>sp. (Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Nathan Fisk<\/p>\n

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Dar Churcher sends a photograph of a beautiful plusiine moth, Autographa corusca<\/em><\/strong>, from her house in Colwood, August 17.<\/p>\n

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Autographa corusca <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae)\u00a0 Dar Churcher<\/p>\n

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Autographa corusca <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae)\u00a0 Dar Churcher<\/p>\n

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