{"id":4877,"date":"2017-08-27T20:11:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T03:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2017-08-29T08:51:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:51:34","slug":"august-27-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4877","title":{"rendered":"August 27"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen Moehr sends some photographs from around his Metchosin house, August 26.\u00a0\u00a0 The first is a jumping spider Salticus scenicus<\/em><\/strong> with a moth, which I think may be a bit too far gone to identify, although I think it is a geometrid.<\/p>\n

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Salticus scenicus <\/em>(Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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The second is a handsome geometrid moth Ennomos magnaria<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Ennomos magnaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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The third one – a noctuid moth – is more difficult.\u00a0 The best that Libby Avis and Jeremy Tatum can come up with is probably Euxoa <\/em><\/strong>sp.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is one of the largest noctuid genera, so that doesn\u2019t narrow it down a great deal.\u00a0 As Libby points out, this genus is one where several species are similar, and there can be quite a variation among individuals of the same species.<\/p>\n

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Probably Euxoa <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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Jochen writes:\u00a0 One thing I find worth mentioning is that I always see Pine Whites, but
\nalways only single ones.\u00a0 In the years after the total devastation of
\nthe insect world because of the aerial bombing with BTK in 1999 –
\nperhaps around 2005 – I often saw many, just driving by the Royal Roads
\nproperty along Metchosin Road.\u00a0 Once I counted 28 in one pass.<\/p>\n

What is the reason for the current scarcity?<\/p>\n

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Good question!\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 They vary greatly in numbers from year to year, and I think most watchers would agree that Pine White numbers have been rather low this year. The species overwinters in the egg stage, and the young caterpillars hatch in the spring. This year we had a prolonged wet spring at a time when the young caterpillars will have been active.\u00a0 Maybe this had something to do with it.\u00a0\u00a0 Has anyone seen a Pine White recently?<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, August 26,\u00a0 Kirsten Mills tells me she saw 2 <\/strong>Orange<\/strong> Sulphurs <\/strong>along Martindale Road about half way down the road.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I thought I\u2019d follow up on this, so I went out to Martindale today (August 27), to see if I could find a sulphur.\u00a0 There were lots of Cabbage Whites<\/strong>, and one or two Woodland Skippers<\/strong>, but I didn\u2019t see any sulphurs.\u00a0 However, I did see two unexpected nice surprises – an Anise Swallowtail<\/strong> and a Grey Hairstreak.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The fresh hairstreak was nectaring on Wild Carrot along the east edge of the cabbage field on Martindale.\u00a0 The slightly worn swallowtail was flying around erratically, occasionally nectaring on a wild species of Brassica<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Annie Pang sends a photograph of Alucita <\/em><\/strong>montana<\/em><\/strong> from her kitchen window sill.<\/p>\n

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Alucita <\/em>montana<\/em> (Lep.: Alucitidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Time to go home.\u00a0 More photos tomorrow!\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy<\/p>\n

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2017 August 27 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen Moehr sends some photographs from around his Metchosin house, August 26.\u00a0\u00a0 The first is a jumping spider Salticus scenicus with a moth, which I think may be a bit too far gone to identify, although I think it is a geometrid.   Salticus scenicus (Ara.: Salticidae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr   […]<\/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-4877","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\/4877","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=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}