{"id":558,"date":"2015-07-03T03:22:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T10:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=558"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:04","slug":"july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"July 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 July 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore writes:&nbsp; With the heavy wind in Lantzville I was surprised to see a couple of moths at my light this morning &#8211; one I have not seen before. I think it is <strong><em>Leucania farcta<\/em><\/strong> but I am not sure I can rule out <strong> <em>Mythimna oxygala<\/em><\/strong>. Either way it was nice to see.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I can&#8217;t tell, either.&nbsp; To add to the complications, some splitters split <em>farcta <\/em>into <strong><em>Leucania farcta <\/em><\/strong>and<em> <\/em><em><strong>Leucania oregona<\/strong><\/em>.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going to take the easy way out and label this one &#8220;wainscot moth&#8221;, which is a general name for this group of moths, most of whose caterpillars  are grass-feeders. &nbsp;It&#8217;s almost certainly one of the above three species. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"750\" originalwidth=\"1000\" name=\"\" title=\"Leucania.jpg\" height=\"441.59999999999997\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image5596001087da8.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">Wainscot moth (Lep.: &nbsp;Noctuidae)&nbsp; Scott Gilmore<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Hart writes:&nbsp; We saw our first <strong>Pine White<\/strong> of the year today on a Buddleia flower.&nbsp; Jeremy comments:&nbsp; I have just looked through the Invert Alert Index, and I see that the earliest date that a Pine White has been photographed on  this site since it started in 2010 was on July 21, 2013.&nbsp; That&#8217;s doubtless not the earliest date that one has ever been seen in our area, but there&#8217;s no doubt that July 2 is a very early date. I don&#8217;t know if anyone has ever seen one in June.&nbsp; Let us know  if you have.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"738\" originalwidth=\"938\" name=\"\" title=\"Pine White, Neophasia menapia.jpg\" height=\"463.25628997867796\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image5596001088fb3.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">Pine White <em>Neophasia menapia <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)&nbsp; Gordon Hart<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I visited Mount Tolmie this afternoon.&nbsp; The temperature must have been close to 90 degrees Fahrenheit.&nbsp; There were no nymphalids basking on the reservoir &#8211; they don&#8217;t usually come until at least 6:00 pm or later. But there were lots  and lots of <strong>Western Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> flying around and over the reservoir.&nbsp; It was quite an exciting sight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 July 2 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore writes:&nbsp; With the heavy wind in Lantzville I was surprised to see a couple of moths at my light this morning &#8211; one I have not seen before. I think it is Leucania farcta but I am not sure I can rule out Mythimna oxygala. 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