{"id":4869,"date":"2017-08-26T19:49:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T02:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2017-08-26T19:57:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T02:57:29","slug":"august-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4869","title":{"rendered":"August 26"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  I have had exactly the same experience as Annie Pang (see August 25 posting) – for weeks I have had no moths at my back door in Saanich, when suddenly, in the space of a few days, Annie and I both get a Neoalcis californiaria<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   And no sooner had I written the above, when Dar Churcher sent in a photograph of yet another one in Colwood:<\/p>\n

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Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Dar Churcher<\/p>\n

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   Dar also sends a photograph of a “small brown job” from Colwood, August 18.  This is a tough one, and I often give up on pugs, but I think I’ll stick my neck out and call it Eupithecia unicolor <\/em>(a misnomer if ever there was one –  it’s one of the few pugs with obviously two colours!)<\/p>\n

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Eupithecia unicolor <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Dar Churcher<\/p>\n

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   Dar also sends a photograph of a moth from her fir hedge on July 3.  I can’t identify it for sure, but I believe it may be Choristoneura freemani<\/em><\/strong>.   There are probably some forestry experts on this species around somewhere – we’d be glad to hear from one.<\/p>\n

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Possibly Choristoneura freemani <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae)  Dar Churcher<\/p>\n

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   Dar Churcher sends a photograph of a small caterpillar found on an amaryllis plant.  It is a “micro”, and I don’t think I can identify it.  Funnily enough it looks not unlike the caterpillar of Choristoneura freemani – <\/em>though amaryllis is quite the wrong foodplant!       Dar asks: Is that a parasitic worm visible inside the lower half of the body?  Jeremy writes:  It is not a tachinid or hymenopterous parasitoid.  I am not expert on the insides of caterpillars, but I think the wiggly thing (not a very technical term!) is probably part of the caterpillar’s digestive tract.<\/p>\n

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Unidentified “micro” moth caterpillar (Lepidoptera)  Dar Churcher<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  At McIntyre reservoir today, there were still uncountable numbers of Cabbage Whites <\/strong>there and in the adjacent cabbage fields.  The only other butterflies I saw there were a single Woodland Skipper<\/strong> and a single fresh-looking Painted Lady.<\/strong>  <\/strong>A few days ago I saw a recently-vacated nest of a Painted Lady caterpillar on a thistle in that area.   This evening at 6:00 pm I saw three Painted Ladies<\/strong> at the top of Christmas Hill.  Although very worn, they were still flying strongly.<\/p>\n

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 There are a few more photographs in the queue.  Shall try to post tomorrow. <\/p>\n

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2017 August 26      Jeremy Tatum writes:  I have had exactly the same experience as Annie Pang (see August 25 posting) – for weeks I have had no moths at my back door in Saanich, when suddenly, in the space of a few days, Annie and I both get a Neoalcis californiaria!   Neoalcis […]<\/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-4869","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\/4869","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=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}