{"id":4828,"date":"2017-08-20T20:02:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T03:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2017-08-28T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T15:53:09","slug":"august-20-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4828","title":{"rendered":"August 20"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 August 20<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen Moehr writes:\u00a0 On Friday, August 18, Chris and I were shovelling at least three cubic metres of hog manure into the base of our newly installed raised beds in Metchosin.\u00a0 A diversion for me was this beetle that approached us on the cedar of our bed frames.\u00a0 Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying it as Leptura obliterata<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Leptura obliterata <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have to wait long to see the next instar of the Yellow Woolly Bear<\/strong> caterpillar shown on August 18.\u00a0 It changed its skin (and ate the very hairy old one!) the following day.<\/p>\n

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Yellow Woolly Bear\u00a0Spilosoma virginica<\/em> (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday,\u00a0 August 19, at Royal Roads University there were 3<\/strong> Painted Ladies, 2 Pine Whites<\/strong>, a few Cabbage Whites<\/strong> and many Woodland Skippers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Along Highland Road next to Thetis Lake Park there were 12 <\/strong>Woodland<\/strong> Skippers<\/strong>, a few Cabbage Whites<\/strong> and one Lorquin\u2019s Admiral<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Val George writes:\u00a0 This Alfalfa Looper<\/strong> Autographa californica<\/strong><\/em> was at Island View Road today, August 20.<\/p>\n

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Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes that in this, which may (?) be the last of the little notes I am writing about names, I address two points about English names.\u00a0 As we all know, some insects have been given many different English names by different authors, and there is often no general agreement as to what \u201cought\u201d to be the \u201ccorrect\u201d name.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to deal with that here, but with two other points.\u00a0 The first is that, when you use an English name, it should be written with first letters capitalized.\u00a0 Thus Brown Elfin, not brown elfin. This is a very important point, and I think most viewers, on reflection, will see that there is a distinction between a Brown Elfin and a brown elfin.\u00a0 A Moss\u2019s Elfin, one must agree, is a brown elfin; but it is not a Brown Elfin.\u00a0 So please, capitalize the first letters of English names.\u00a0 Exception:\u00a0 The second word of a hyphenated pair is not capitalized:\u00a0 Thus, Eight-spotted Skimmer, not Eight-Spotted Skimmer.<\/p>\n

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The second point is a smaller one, but perhaps worth making.\u00a0 In forestry, agriculture and horticulture circles, where the larval forms of some insects are of \u201ceconomic importance\u201d\u00a0 (i.e. are regarded as pests!), insects are often given English names after their larval forms.\u00a0 For example, Variegated Cutworm, Imported Cabbageworm, and even Alfalfa Looper!\u00a0\u00a0 It is more often preferred, in natural history circles, to name an insect after the adult form.\u00a0 This, instead of Variegated Cutworm (it is of course not a worm!), we use Pearly Underwing, and instead of Imported Cabbageworm (horrible name!) we use Cabbage White (or, in the UK, Small White – not small white!).\u00a0 This is not an invariable rule; rather it is a traditional preference.\u00a0 There are exceptions – for example we often refer to the hairy caterpillars of arctiine moths as \u201cwoolly bears\u201d, and even name the species for their caterpillars:\u00a0 Yellow Woolly Bear, Banded Woolly Bear, etc. The name \u201cwoolly bear\u201d, however, shouldn\u2019t be given to any<\/span> hairy caterpillar, but only to those of the Subfamily Arctiinae.\u00a0 After all, \u201carctiine\u201d means \u201cbear-like\u201d.<\/p>\n

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As to how many ells you put in \u201cwooly\u201d and \u201cshoveling\u201d, it depends on which side of the border you live!<\/p>\n

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2017 August 20 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen Moehr writes:\u00a0 On Friday, August 18, Chris and I were shovelling at least three cubic metres of hog manure into the base of our newly installed raised beds in Metchosin.\u00a0 A diversion for me was this beetle that approached us on the cedar of our bed frames.\u00a0 Thanks to […]<\/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-4828","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\/4828","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=4828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4886,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions\/4886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}