{"id":4888,"date":"2017-08-28T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T21:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2017-08-30T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T21:15:01","slug":"august-28-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4888","title":{"rendered":"August 28"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Reminder:<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Please send images as attachments<\/strong><\/span> in .jpg format.\u00a0\u00a0 Please!!!!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Recently I have repeatedly photographed (August 18, 20 and 24) a woolly bear caterpillar, in the belief that it was a \u201clifer\u201d for me.\u00a0 However, it has now reached its final instar, and I realize that it is a Yellow Woolly Bear<\/strong>, or Virginia Ermine<\/strong>, by no means a lifer. Assuming the final instar is number five, the August 18 photograph (third instar) showed a red dorsal stripe, and the August 20 photograph showed blackish hairs on the thoracic segments, both features that were unfamiliar to me.\u00a0 However, the final instar, shown below, shows that it is the familiar Yellow Woolly Bear.\u00a0 As soon as I realized this I offered it some Plantago<\/em> to eat, which it obviously relished.<\/p>\n

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

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The apparent geometrid-like caterpillar shown on August 24 is now a little larger, and is now obviously not a geometrid.\u00a0 It looks as though it may be on its way to being something quite exciting.\u00a0 Maybe Erebidae.\u00a0\u00a0 [Added later – Yes, Zale<\/em>, Erebidae]<\/p>\n

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Zale\u00a0<\/em>sp. (Lep.: Erebidae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Jeremy continues:\u00a0 There were two adult Neoalcis californiaria <\/em> <\/strong>outside my back door in Saanich this morning – remarkable for their difference in size.\u00a0 One was 43 mm wingtip to wingtip, and other was just 35 mm.<\/p>\n

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Jochen Moehr photographed a grasshopper in Metchosin on August 26.\u00a0 Claudia Copley\u2019s \u201cbest guess\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 (probably a good one!) is Camnula pellucida<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong> (It has obviously hopped up here from the centre of the Earth.\u00a0 ERB enthusiasts will know what I\u2019m referring to.)<\/p>\n

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Camnula pellucida <\/em>(Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Ren Ferguson writes:\u00a0 I just returned from Saturna Island where I was camping at Narvaez Bay from August 24-27th. The Red Alders that overhung our site had large numbers of sawfly larvae<\/strong> busily feeding on the leaves. Some branches were denuded completely. When I pulled a branch down to photograph them they all went into a defensive pasture in unison \u2014 raising their curled rear ends. It was interesting to watch. I woke in the night and thought it might be raining but seeing stars through the tent window, I realized that it was the frass from the larvae that was raining down! I have never seen this species before and would be interested to learn more about them. (Photograph and identification below.)<\/p>\n

Ren continues: \u00a0This is a late piece of information but when I was doing a bird survey on Mount Tuam on Salt Spring on August 1st, I witnessed the largest number of Common Woodnymphs<\/strong> on the wing in any one area that I have ever seen. There were over thirty in a 100 metre radius from the summit.<\/p>\n

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Hemichroa crocea <\/em>(Hym.: Tenthredinidae)\u00a0 Ren Ferguson<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here are 596 eggs of a Large Yellow Underwing <\/strong>moth from an Aspen leaf at Bow Park (Saanich) this morning.\u00a0 You will notice that a few of them are darker than the others.\u00a0 These darker ones are probably hatching even as I type.<\/p>\n

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596 ova of Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Mark Wynja writes: At 11:30 am on August 27th I went to Paradise Meadows. I saw 1 Hoary\/Zephyr Comma<\/strong> and 1 Green Comma<\/strong>. Also present there were at least 6 Mariposa Coppers<\/strong>, and several Hydaspe Fritillaries<\/strong>. Nearby, along Alpine Road (NW of the parking lot for Paradise Meadows) were 2 Hoary\/Zephyr Commas<\/strong> and 1 Green Comma<\/strong>, 1 Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong>, and 3 Mariposa Coppers. At the parking lot at the base of the Sunrise Quad Chairlift was a fresh Painted Lady<\/strong>, at least 5 Anna Blues<\/strong>, 2 Mariposa Coppers<\/strong> and 1 Branded Skipper<\/strong>. About 20 Cabbage Whites<\/strong> were seen throughout the area.<\/p>\n

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Green Comma Polygonia faunus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Hoary Comma Polygonia gracilis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Green Comma Polygonia faunus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Hoary Comma Polygonia gracilis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Branded Skipper Hesperia comma <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 More photographs and observations in the queue – for tomorrow!\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy<\/p>\n

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2017 August 28 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Reminder:\u00a0 Please send images as attachments in .jpg format.\u00a0\u00a0 Please!!!!   \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Recently I have repeatedly photographed (August 18, 20 and 24) a woolly bear caterpillar, in the belief that it was a \u201clifer\u201d for me.\u00a0 However, it has now reached its final instar, and I realize […]<\/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-4888","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\/4888","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=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4912,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions\/4912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}