{"id":4813,"date":"2017-08-18T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T23:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2017-08-28T08:56:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T15:56:43","slug":"august-18-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4813","title":{"rendered":"August 18 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 August 18 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For information on the August Butterfly Count and the September Butterfly Walk, please scroll down to the previous posting, 2017 August 18 morning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Yesterday I found a woolly bear caterpillar on the boardwalk\u00a0 over Swan Lake, looking rather lost.\u00a0 I took it home and offered it a number of foodplants, and it happily accepted willow, as you can see below. At first I thought it was a “lifer” for me, but later it turned out to be a Yellow Woolly Bear.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today I saw a latish Lorquin\u2019s Admiral <\/strong>at UVic, and also numerous Woodland Skippers <\/strong>still, nectaring eagerly on Burdock.<\/p>\n

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Yellow Woolly Bear Spilosoma virginica <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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To continue with the bit I was writing about printing the names of animals.\u00a0 The invertebrates that are discussed in this website belong to several Classes, of which the Class Insecta (with a capital I) is one of the largest.\u00a0 Others are Arachnida (spiders, mites, harvestmen, etc.), Gastropoda (slugs and snails), etc.\u00a0 Look at the Index to find the various Classes that the site has featured so far.\u00a0 And in case you are wondering, Gastropoda is one of several Classes within the larger Phylum Mollusca.<\/p>\n

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Within each Class are several Orders.\u00a0 Thus some of the Orders within the Class Insecta are Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies), Coleoptera (beetles),\u00a0 Hemiptera (bugs), Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants, etc.).\u00a0 Again, look at the Index to see more of these Order names.<\/p>\n

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And within each Order are several Families, all of which begin with a capital letter and (for animals) end in -idae.\u00a0 Thus within the Order Lepidoptera we have Families including Papilionidae (swallowtails and parnassians), Pieridae (whites and sulphurs), Lycaenidae (blues, hairstreaks, elfins, coppers, etc.), Noctuidae, Geometridae, Erebidae, Tortricidae, etc., which are various moth families.<\/p>\n

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If you find a moth, say, of the Family Noctuidae, you may write that you have found a moth of the Family Noctuidae (with a capital N), or that you have found a noctuid (with a small n).\u00a0 But don\u2019t write that you have found or seen\u00a0 \u201ca Noctuidae\u201d.\u00a0 That wouldn\u2019t quite make sense.\u00a0 The Red Admiral belongs to the Family Nymphalidae.\u00a0 It is a nymphalid. But it is not \u201ca Nymphalidae\u201d.\u00a0 For a start, the word \u201cNymphalidae\u201d is a collective plural noun.<\/p>\n

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In the caption to each photograph I write the scientific name (genus and species), followed, in parentheses, by a three- or four-letter abbreviation for the Order, and the Family (-idae).\u00a0\u00a0 Occasionally I may add a Subfamily name, which ends in -inae.\u00a0 I do this usually for the recently-formed Family Erebidae, which includes some Subfamilies that formerly had full Family status – as, for example under the photograph above of a woolly bear caterpillar.\u00a0 More rarely I may refer to a Superfamily, which ends in -oidea.\u00a0 For example the Superfamily Papilionoidea includes all the \u201ctrue\u201d butterfly Families (not the skippers).<\/p>\n

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There are all sorts of other wrinkles about scientific names, but what I have described is enough for the basic purposes of the Website.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll discuss English (\u201ccommon\u201d) names in a future posting.<\/p>\n

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2017 August 18 evening   For information on the August Butterfly Count and the September Butterfly Walk, please scroll down to the previous posting, 2017 August 18 morning.   Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Yesterday I found a woolly bear caterpillar on the boardwalk\u00a0 over Swan Lake, looking rather lost.\u00a0 I took it home and offered it […]<\/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-4813","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\/4813","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=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}