{"id":6113,"date":"2018-05-19T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T20:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2018-05-19T13:26:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T20:26:06","slug":"may-19-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6113","title":{"rendered":"May 19 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>2018 May 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:&nbsp; Yesterday morning at the moth light, I found  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>5 <\/strong><strong><em>Melanolophia imitata<\/em><\/strong><strong>, 2&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em>Tyria jacobaeae,  <\/em><\/strong>and one each of <strong><em>Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli,<\/em><\/strong><strong>  <\/strong><strong><em>Perizoma curvilinea,<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong><em>Lophocampa maculata<\/em><\/strong><strong>  <\/strong>as well as two which I could not identify.&nbsp; (Not to worry &#8211; Libby Avis has done that for us &#8211; see photographs below.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Lophocampa maculata.JPG\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"592.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lophocampa-maculata.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Spotted Tiger Moth <em>Lophocampa maculata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Arctiinae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:624px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Venusia obsoleta .JPG\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"592.5306678782371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Venusia-obsoleta-.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:624px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Perizoma curvilinea.jpg\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"1199\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"592.3059999999999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Perizoma-curvilinea.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Perizoma curvilinea <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:624px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Biston.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"976\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"482.14399999999995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Biston.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Peppered Moth <em>Biston betularia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:624px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Agrotis obliqua.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"1114\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"550.3159999999999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Agrotis-obliqua.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Agrotis obliqua <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp; Libby Avis writes from Port Alberni:&nbsp; Have had a fair amount of moth activity this week, including two  <strong><em>Hyalophora euryalus<\/em><\/strong> , one male and one female which showed up the day after Moralea saw hers (see May 12). Have attached three others from yesterday morning:  <strong><em>Anavitrinella pampinaria, Metarranthis duaria<\/em><\/strong> and <strong>  <em>Spiramater lutra.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:667px; margin:5px\" src=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Anavitrinella pampinaria_MG_0594a.jpg\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"800\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"395.19999999999993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anavitrinella-pampinaria_MG_0594a.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Anavitrinella pampinaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Libby Avis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:633px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Metarranthis duaria_MG_0602ar.jpg\" originalwidth=\"1000\" originalheight=\"667\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"395.3976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Metarranthis-duaria_MG_0602ar.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Metarranthis duaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Libby Avis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:384px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Spiramater lutra_MG_0593a.jpg\" originalwidth=\"873\" originalheight=\"1200\" setheight=\"605\" setwidth=\"440\" hasheight=\"false\" style=\"width: 440px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Spiramater-lutra_MG_0593a.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Spiramater lutra <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Libby Avis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Libby also sends photographs of a caterpillar that she found on an ornamental birch tree in her yard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:535px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"aest2.jpg\" originalwidth=\"997\" originalheight=\"617\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"366.8581745235707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aest2.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Common Emerald <em>Hemithea aestivaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Libby Avis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" style=\"width:521px; margin:5px\" src=\"\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"aest1.jpg\" originalwidth=\"1000\" originalheight=\"667\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"395.3976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aest1.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Common Emerald <em>Hemithea aestivaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Libby Avis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 May 19 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:&nbsp; Yesterday morning at the moth light, I found 5 Melanolophia imitata, 2&nbsp;Tyria jacobaeae, and one each of Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli, Perizoma curvilinea, Lophocampa maculata as well as two which I could not identify.&nbsp; (Not to worry &#8211; Libby Avis has done that for us &#8211; see [&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-6113","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\/6113","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=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}