{"id":6041,"date":"2018-05-10T15:38:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T22:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2018-05-10T15:45:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T22:45:56","slug":"may-10-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6041","title":{"rendered":"May 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 May 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jochen Moehr sends a photograph of a<strong> Silver-spotted Tiger Moth caterpillar<\/strong> from Metchosin:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Lopho.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"779\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"461.68733333333336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lopho.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa argentata  <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Yesterday, May 9 at 6:15 pm, there were no butterflies on the Mount Tolmie reservoir, but there was a  <strong>Propertius Duskywing <\/strong>just outside the entrance to the reservoir, and a  <strong>Painted Lady <\/strong>flying around the Jeffery Pine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore writes from Lantzville:&nbsp; My son caught a fly in the house on May 8th. It was suggested to me that it was from the family Clusiidae and I wonder if it might be  <strong><em>Clusia occidentalis<\/em><\/strong>?&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum replies:&nbsp; If there are any experts on clusiids out there, please let us know! &nbsp;(We are sure there must be one somewhere!)&nbsp; In the meantime we can certainly label it as a clusiid (see those &#8220;partially   infuscated&#8221; wings!), and probably <strong><em>Clusia occidentalis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"druid1.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"860\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"509.6933333333333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/druid1.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Druid fly, probably <em>Clusia occidentalis <\/em>(Dip.: Clusiidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"druid2.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"996\" width=\"711.2\" height=\"590.296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/druid2.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Druid fly, probably <em>Clusia occidentalis <\/em>(Dip.: Clusiidae) Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 10 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen Moehr sends a photograph of a Silver-spotted Tiger Moth caterpillar from Metchosin: &nbsp; Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae)&nbsp; Jochen Moehr &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Yesterday, May 9 at 6:15 pm, there were no butterflies on the Mount Tolmie reservoir, but there was a Propertius [&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-6041","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\/6041","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=6041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}