{"id":4983,"date":"2017-09-06T16:02:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2017-09-06T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T23:07:26","slug":"september-6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4983","title":{"rendered":"September 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jochen Moehr sends a photograph of a grasshopper in Metchosin, September 3.  He writes that they are very common there, and one is rarely out of earshot of a performer.  Thanks to Claudia Copley for identifying it for us as a Crackling<\/strong> <\/strong>Forest<\/strong> Grasshopper <\/strong>Trimerotropis verruculata<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trimerotropis verruculata <\/em>(Orth.: Acrididae)  Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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   Val George writes:  Bryan Gates and I were on Mount Washington on September 4 checking out the banded Grey Jays when we saw this butterfly.  A tough identification, but I’m pretty sure it’s a Hoary Comma <\/strong>Polygonia gracilis<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum comments:  I am more than happy to label this as a Hoary Comma <\/strong>Polygonia gracilis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>  <\/strong> As described on the August 28 posting, I am for the time being treating the forms gracilis, zephyrus <\/em>and oreas <\/em>as conspecific under the name gracilis.<\/em>  Val’s photograph shows very well the “greenish yellow submarginal spots” described by Guppy and Shepard under the name zephyrus<\/em>.  What is not clear is whether these spots are specific to the form zephyrus<\/em>, or whether they may also occur in the other forms.<\/p>\n

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

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   <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes that there was a lone Lorquin’s Admiral<\/strong> on the Cedar Hill Golf Course today, September 6, at just about 9:15 a.m.  It was on the right hand side of the course just south of the club house.<\/p>\n

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  Jeremy Tatum writes that at the back door of his apartment this morning were 2 <\/strong>Neoalcis californiaria <\/em><\/strong> and 1 <\/strong>Drepanulatrix monicaria<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>– both out of camera reach, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

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2017 September 6      Jochen Moehr sends a photograph of a grasshopper in Metchosin, September 3.  He writes that they are very common there, and one is rarely out of earshot of a performer.  Thanks to Claudia Copley for identifying it for us as a Crackling Forest Grasshopper Trimerotropis verruculata.   Trimerotropis verruculata (Orth.: […]<\/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-4983","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\/4983","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=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}