{"id":5056,"date":"2017-09-17T14:28:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T21:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2017-09-23T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T16:17:10","slug":"september-17-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5056","title":{"rendered":"September 17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 September 17<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Mike McGrenere sends a second photograph of the American Lady <\/strong>that he found at McIntyre reservoir on September 10.\u00a0 This photograph allows a clearer view of the underside.\u00a0 This is a rarity here, and indeed in British Columbia, although it is the second report we have heard of on Vancouver Island this year.\u00a0 One was photographed by Martin Dollenkamp from Black Creek on August 8. (See the posting for August 11.)\u00a0 On 2015 August 26 one was photographed at Ucluelet by a visitor from the UK, Patrick Moore, and was shown on the Sussex (England) butterfly website<\/p>\n

www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk\/sightings\/<\/a><\/p>\n

specifically at \u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk\/old%20sightings\/nov-dec2015.html<\/p>\n

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American Lady Vanessa virginiensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/p>\n

Mike McGrenere<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 There are still a few Painted Ladies <\/strong>around – Anne-Marie Hart spotted a fresh one nectaring on a Buddleia <\/em>bush in their Highlands garden yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Libby Avis tells us that she is still seeing lots of Nepytia phantasmaria<\/em><\/strong> (see yesterday\u2019s posting) in Port Alberni –\u00a0 15 of them last night!<\/p>\n

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Janet Renouf sends a photograph of a green caterpillar from under an oak tree.\u00a0 It is a Rough Prominent <\/strong>Nadata gibbosa<\/em><\/strong>, and it looks as if it is just about to pupate at any moment.\u00a0 Unfortunately it seems to have had some sort of a mishap, because it usually spins a tough cocoon in which to pupate, and, without its cocoon, I don\u2019t rate its chances of survival greatly.<\/p>\n

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Nadata gibbosa <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontidae)\u00a0 Janet Renouf<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart sends photographs of damselflies from the Beaver Lake retriever ponds, September 15.\u00a0 We are grateful to Rob Cannings for the identifications.\u00a0 Rob writes: The first is a Lestes<\/em><\/strong> male. Unfortunately, the tip of the abdomen is out of focus, which makes identification tricky from the dorsal view. The two species common here in September are L. disjunctus<\/em><\/strong> and L. congener<\/em><\/strong> and, based on this and certain characters, it’s one of those. I’m afraid I can’t really tell.\u00a0\u00a0 The second is a female Enallagma carunculatum<\/em><\/strong>. Eighth abdominal segment is all black on top.<\/p>\n

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Spreadwing Lestes disjunctus\/congener <\/em>(Odo.:\u00a0 Lestidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Female Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum <\/em> (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)<\/p>\n

Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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2017 September 17 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Mike McGrenere sends a second photograph of the American Lady that he found at McIntyre reservoir on September 10.\u00a0 This photograph allows a clearer view of the underside.\u00a0 This is a rarity here, and indeed in British Columbia, although it is the second report we have heard of on Vancouver […]<\/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-5056","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\/5056","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=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5108,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/5108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}