{"id":5622,"date":"2018-03-08T16:01:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2018-03-08T16:06:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:06:23","slug":"march-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=5622","title":{"rendered":"March 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Objet trouv\u00e9<\/em> by Ann Nightingale in Ann Scarfe’s Gordon Head garden, a chrysalis of a tiger swallowtail <\/strong>butterfly.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I can’t tell whether it is a Western or a Pale Tiger Swallowtail.  Unfortunately the pupa had somehow become detached from its substrate, which would normally result in a crippled adult unable to fly or even to completely emerge from the chrysalis.  Fortunately, there is still some silk attached to the cremaster and to the girdle, and I think I may be able to attach these silk remnants to a suitable surface and with luck the butterfly may be able to emerge without injury.  I hope to be able to report a happy ending later in the year!<\/p>\n

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Tiger swallowtail Papilio <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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  Jochen Moehr writes from Metchosin:  The moth activity up here is increasing.  Since two or three days now, we have lively activity at the very weak light at our deck.  Tonight, there were about fifteen.  I think they are all pugs. Jeremy Tatum writes:  I find pugs difficult, but I think these are either Eupithecia annulata<\/em><\/strong> or they are not!<\/p>\n

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Eupithecia <\/em>(possibly annulata<\/em>) <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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Eupithecia <\/em>(possibly annulata<\/em>) <\/em> <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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  Moralea Milne sends a photograph of a moth from Camas Hill, March 7.  Identified by Libby Avis as Orthosia pulchella<\/em><\/strong>, who comments that she knows of no previous records from this area.   We’ve certainly had none on Invert Alert since it started in 2010.  We’ve had six species of Orthosia<\/em>, but not this one.  Moths in this genus are often unjustly called “drabs”.  Moralea’s moth is far from drab – indeed the scientific name means “beautiful little one” – a perfectly justified name!<\/p>\n

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Orthosia pulchella <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Moralea Milne<\/p>\n

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2018 March 8      Objet trouv\u00e9 by Ann Nightingale in Ann Scarfe’s Gordon Head garden, a chrysalis of a tiger swallowtail butterfly.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I can’t tell whether it is a Western or a Pale Tiger Swallowtail.  Unfortunately the pupa had somehow become detached from its substrate, which would normally result in a […]<\/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-5622","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\/5622","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=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}