{"id":5115,"date":"2017-09-23T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T23:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:04:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T23:04:26","slug":"september-23-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5115","title":{"rendered":"September 23"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I visited McIntyre Reservoir today in hopes of seeing an American Lady.\u00a0 No such luck, and unfortunately most of the Teasels are now past flowering.\u00a0 There are a very few Teasels left, and lots of other flowers, so it is still worth a look to find Painted or American Ladies.<\/p>\n

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I did see from one to three (not sure which) Orange<\/strong> Sulphurs.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The one I had a good look at was obviously a female (yellow spots inside the broad terminal band), and it was every bit as deep orange as a male Orange Sulphur.\u00a0 This makes me think again quite seriously about those paler sulphurs seen during the VNHS September Butterfly Walk.\u00a0 I may have too hastily dismissed them as female Orange Sulphurs, and I now wonder if in fact they may have been Clouded Sulphurs.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think they were the form helice<\/em> that occurs in many female sulphur species, because forma helice <\/em>is almost as white as a Cabbage White.\u00a0 If anyone has photos of these paler sulphurs from the VNHS Butterfly Walk, we would be very interested to see them.<\/p>\n

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There were still lots of Cabbage Whites <\/strong>at McIntyre reservoir.<\/p>\n

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Rosemary Jorna writes from Kemp Lake Road:\u00a0 I do not know if this spider lived in our house or came in with me as I had been working in the yard. We I came in for coffee and I settled down on the couch.\u00a0\u00a0 After a few minutes it ran down my arm and ended up on our deck for photos before a quick trip out back to a new home.<\/p>\n

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It could be a female of Steatoda grossa<\/em> but my first guess would be Steatoda albomaculata<\/em>. \u00a0Steatoda<\/em> grossa<\/em> females are usually mostly dark brown but they often have some amount of pale patterning. Males of grossa<\/em> are patterned and this is likely the same scenario as in Latrodectus<\/em> (same family – Theridiidae) where the adult males retain juvenile patterning and some females do, too, especially subadults.<\/div>\n
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Steatoda sp.<\/em>(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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Bill Savale found some tiny beetles in a long-dried specimen of a fungus that he had had for some years.\u00a0 Many thanks to Charlene Wood for identifying them and photographing them. They are at most 1.5 mm in length.\u00a0 Have a look on a ruler to remind yourself of what a millimetre looks like to appreciate Charlene\u2019s skill in getting the photograph.<\/p>\n

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Hadraule blaisdelli <\/em>(Col.:\u00a0 Ciidae)\u00a0 Charlene Wood<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The Pheosia rimosa <\/em><\/strong>caterpillar shown on September 20 has now grown a lot and has changed colour:<\/p>\n

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Pheosia rimosa <\/em>(Lep.: Notodontidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2017 September 23 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I visited McIntyre Reservoir today in hopes of seeing an American Lady.\u00a0 No such luck, and unfortunately most of the Teasels are now past flowering.\u00a0 There are a very few Teasels left, and lots of other flowers, so it is still worth a look to find Painted […]<\/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-5115","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\/5115","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=5115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5132,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}