{"id":5008,"date":"2017-09-11T19:28:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T02:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2017-10-12T15:47:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T22:47:03","slug":"september-11-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5008","title":{"rendered":"September 11"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum sends photographs of some caterpillars.\u00a0 The first from Ocean Spray at Mount Douglas.\u00a0 The second from Rubus<\/em> sp. in East Sooke Park, now feeding on willow.<\/p>\n

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Unicorn Prominent Schizura unicornis <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Peppered Moth Biston betularia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The Zale<\/em> caterpillar that has been shown on August 28 and 30, and September 2 and 7 is now pupating.\u00a0 We have narrowed it down to Z. lunata <\/em>or Z. minerea<\/em>, probably the former.\u00a0 Its ventral side is interesting:<\/p>\n

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

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I went to McIntyre reservoir today.\u00a0 There were still hundreds of Cabbage Whites<\/strong> in flight.\u00a0 I also saw one (or more?) pristine Orange Sulphur<\/strong> and one (or more?) pristine Painted Lady.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The sulphur was a full, rich orange.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t see any of the paler sulphurs that we saw during the VNHS September Butterfly Walk.\u00a0 It would be nice to get some good photographs of these.\u00a0 Although we assumed that they were female Orange Sulphurs, I am not 100 per cent certain, and I am toying with the possibility that they may have been Clouded Sulphurs – a different species.\u00a0 In any case today I had a look at the Brussels Sprouts plants to see if I could spot any caterpillars.\u00a0 I found one caterpillar each of Cabbage Looper<\/strong> and Cabbage White Butterfly.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The adult Cabbage Looper is the Ni Moth.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong> The mark on the upperside of the forewing is supposed to resemble the Greek letter nu (n);\u00a0 \u201cNi\u201d is the Latinized form of Greek \u201cnu\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 The Ni Moth is a plusiine (i.e. belongs to the Subfamily Plusiinae of the Family Noctuidae).\u00a0 Most of the plusiine caterpillars don\u2019t have the usual complement of abdominal prolegs (count them), and they walk in a semi-looper fashion.<\/p>\n

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Ni Moth Trichoplusia ni <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Cabbage White Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Message just received from Ron Flower, who, too, visited McIntyre reservoir today.\u00a0 He writes:\u00a0 Around noon at the reservoir we saw 2 <\/strong>Woodland<\/strong> Skippers,<\/strong> 6 Painted Ladies,<\/strong> 4 Orange Sulphurs<\/strong>, 2 Purplish Coppers<\/strong>, dozens of Cabbage Whites<\/strong>, and a new moth to us. There could have very well been more of each for they seemed to be everywhere.\u00a0 [Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I\u2019m not very optimistic, but we\u2019ll try and identify the moth.]<\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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Male Purplish Copper\u00a0 Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, Sept. 10, there was a Painted Lady<\/strong> on a Buddleia <\/em>bush along Gorge Road near Harriet Street.\u00a0 Today there were no fewer than 6 Pine Whites<\/strong> in East Sooke Park between Aylard Farm and Beechey Head.<\/p>\n

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Gerry and Wendy Ansell write:\u00a0 Of interest this afternoon (Monday, September 11) was 1 Grey Hairstreak<\/strong> at Panama Flats.\u00a0\u00a0 There were also several Woodland Skippers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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2017 September 11 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum sends photographs of some caterpillars.\u00a0 The first from Ocean Spray at Mount Douglas.\u00a0 The second from Rubus sp. in East Sooke Park, now feeding on willow.   Unicorn Prominent Schizura unicornis (Lep.: Notodontidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum Peppered Moth Biston betularia (Lep.: Geometridae) Jeremy Tatum \u00a0\u00a0 The Zale caterpillar that […]<\/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-5008","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\/5008","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=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5220,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions\/5220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}