{"id":5019,"date":"2017-09-12T18:57:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T01:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2017-09-12T19:06:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T02:06:33","slug":"september-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5019","title":{"rendered":"September 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  <\/strong>My pessimism expressed in the September 11 posting about being able to get an identification of the moth photographed by Ron Flower at McIntyre reservoir yesterday was ill-founded.  Libby Avis had no difficulty in identifying it as Loxostege cereralis <\/em>– named for Ceres, goddess of agriculture.  Here is Ron’s photograph:<\/p>\n

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Loxostege cereralis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae – Pyraustinae)  Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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   The September 10 posting had a report of masses of caterpillars of the White-speck Moth (Armyworm) <\/strong>invading a school in Courtenay.  Now today’s (September 12) Times-Colonist has an article (page B1) headed “Armyworm infestation decimates BC crops”, including such phrases as “seething mass” and “army of voracious worms”, “a larvae” and so on.  I haven’t seen any here in Victoria recently.  Perhaps viewers would keep a lookout for them.  I see many buildings were also decimated by Hurricane Irma.  I always thought that “to decimate” meant “to reduce by ten percent” – but I suppose our language evolves and becomes less comprehensible as it does so.<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I visited McIntyre reservoir again today.   I saw a Painted Lady<\/strong>, a Purplish Copper<\/strong>, and lots of Cabbage Whites <\/strong>– but no sulphurs.  That does not mean that they have all necessarily gone, and it would still be worth a few visits there.  I had some excitement at the Lochside trail pig farm.  A huge Catocala <\/em><\/strong>moth flew right by my head, flashing brilliant red hindwings.  You usually find these moths settled on a wall with their hindwings hidden.  To see the moth in flight was quite exciting.  Later it settled on a branch.  I couldn’t be sure of the species, but, although there were no nearby oaks, I believe it was most likely C. aholibah<\/em><\/strong>.  Then, a little bit further south on Lochside, I found several nests of the Fall Webworm<\/strong>, and I found an isolated caterpillar that had left its nest.  It can be surprising to discover that the Fall Webworm is actually a woolly bear, every bit as woolly, soft, long-haired and cuddly as the other woolly nears in our area.<\/p>\n

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Fall Webworm Hyphantria cunea <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Fall Webworm Hyphantria cunea <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae) <\/p>\n

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2017 September 12      Jeremy Tatum writes:  My pessimism expressed in the September 11 posting about being able to get an identification of the moth photographed by Ron Flower at McIntyre reservoir yesterday was ill-founded.  Libby Avis had no difficulty in identifying it as Loxostege cereralis – named for Ceres, goddess of agriculture.  Here […]<\/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-5019","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\/5019","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=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}