{"id":5023,"date":"2017-09-13T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2017-09-15T10:30:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T17:30:31","slug":"september-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5023","title":{"rendered":"September 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 September 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Lots of <strong><em>Neoalcis <\/em><\/strong><em>californiaria <\/em>keep coming to my back door in Saanich.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"californiaria.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/californiaria.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"387.4\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He also reports a <strong>Red Admiral<\/strong> just outside the entrance to the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 4:00 p m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In yesterday\u2019s (September 12) posting I recounted how I had seen a huge <strong> <em>Catocala <\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>very close by in flight.\u00a0 It turns out that on the very same day Gordon Hart had exactly the same experience in his Highlands yard.\u00a0 As with me, shortly after flying around, the moth settled in full view, the one difference being that Gordon had his camera with him!\u00a0 These \u201ccats\u201d are difficult to distinguish, even if they show their colourful hindwings, and I think we&#8217;ll have to leave this as <em><strong>Catocala <\/strong><\/em><strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Catacola sp.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Catacola-sp.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"574.6433333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Catocala <\/em>sp.\u00a0\u00a0 (Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Erebinae &#8211; Catocalini)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Also seen by Gordon was a <strong>Painted Lady<\/strong>, which, very appropriately, settled on a butterfly-shaped sundial for its photo opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Vanessa cardui.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Vanessa-cardui.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"381.93666666666667\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Painted Lady <em>Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is the pupa formed by the caterpillar of the White-lined Hawk Moth shown on September 3 and 4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hyles pupa.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hyles-pupa.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"397.3333333333333\" name=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">White-lined Hawk Moth <em>Hyles lineata <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 September 13 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Lots of Neoalcis californiaria keep coming to my back door in Saanich. &nbsp; Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He also reports a Red Admiral just outside the entrance to the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 4:00 p m. &nbsp; In yesterday\u2019s (September 12) posting I recounted [&hellip;]<\/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-5023","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\/5023","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=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5035,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}