{"id":609,"date":"2015-07-14T23:56:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T06:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=609"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:04","slug":"july-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"July 14"},"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 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Annie Pang notes that the new Gorge Tillicum Community Gardens are attracting goodly numbers of <strong>Woodland<\/strong><strong> Skippers.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 514px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"514\" setheight=\"434\" originalheight=\"508\" originalwidth=\"602\" name=\"\" title=\"P1240989.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image55a5a1cbda006.jpeg\"><br \/> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">Woodland Skipper <em>Ochlodes sylvanoides<\/em> (Lep.: Hesperiidae)&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 491px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"491\" setheight=\"398\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"455\" originalwidth=\"562\" name=\"\" title=\"P1250014.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image55a5a1cbda37c.jpeg\"> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Woodland Skipper <em>Ochlodes sylvanoides<\/em> (Lep.: Hesperiidae)&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jake Burton found an interesting-looking bug at Fort Rodd Hill.&nbsp; I think it is the first treehopper to appear on this site.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some authors would put this and similar insects in an order &#8220;Homoptera&#8221;, but I&#8217;m going to stick it in with all the bugs in Hemiptera.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"787\" originalwidth=\"922\" name=\"\" title=\"Platycotis vittata.JPG\" height=\"502.5874186550976\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image55a5a1cbda60a.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_image006.jpg\">Male Oak Treehopper <em>Platycotis vittata <\/em>(Hem.: Membracidae)&nbsp; Jake Burton<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Peas usually come in a tin from the grocery store.&nbsp;&nbsp; But during the summer you can go shopping at the local farms and get fresh peas in the pod, which are absolutely delicious.&nbsp; And if you are really lucky you might find a &#8220;worm&#8221;  or two in the pods.&nbsp; It is not a &#8220;worm&#8221;, of course, but the caterpillar of the <strong> Pea Moth.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>I was lucky to find one in some peas that I bought, and the resulting moth that emerged today is shown below.&nbsp; Those beautiful marks along the leading edge of the wings are what I think Eric would call costal strigulae.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"790\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Pea Moth.JPG\" height=\"387.62666666666667\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image55a5a1cbdb0ad.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;Pea Moth <em>Cydia nigricana <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Val George writes: Here is a photo of a <strong>Mylitta Crescent<\/strong> from the Tuesday birding group walk near Mill Bay, July 14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"837\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Mylitta Crescent 5.jpg\" height=\"410.688\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image55a5a1cbdbe04.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Mylitta Crescent <em>Phyciodes mylitta <\/em>(Lep.:&nbsp; Nymphalidae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/body> <\/html> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 July 14 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang notes that the new Gorge Tillicum Community Gardens are attracting goodly numbers of Woodland Skippers.&nbsp; 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