{"id":6224,"date":"2018-05-26T20:14:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T03:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6224"},"modified":"2018-05-26T20:17:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T03:17:45","slug":"may-26-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6224","title":{"rendered":"May 26"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    <\/strong>The Cabbage White <\/strong> caterpillar shown on May 24 has now pupated.  Here is its chrysalis:<\/p>\n

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Cabbage White Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   Rebecca Reader-Lee writes:  As I arrived home in the North Highlands I found this moth on the door:<\/p>\n

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Neoterpes trianguliferata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Rebecca Reader-Lee <\/p>\n

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   Kirsten Mills writes:  Jeff   I counted 22 Field Crescents<\/strong> at Eddy’s Storage on Stelly’s Cross Road this afternoon:<\/p>\n

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Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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   Val George writes:  My May official butterfly count for Mount Douglas and the surrounding area was done on May 21 and today, May 26.  It produced the following:  Cabbage White 18, Western Spring Azure 8, Painted Lady 4, Red Admiral 2, Propertius Duskywing 2 (photo), Western Tiger Swallowtail 5, Pale Tiger Swallowtail 1, Anise Swallowtail 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Val George<\/p>\n

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   Correction:<\/strong>  <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:  On May 25 there was reference to the yellow colour on T2 of Annie Pang’s bee photograph.  I suggested that T2 referred to the second thoracic segment, which is the normal notation used to describe a moth caterpillar.  This was wrong.  Thanks to Jeremy Gatten who pointed out that, in the description of adult insects such as bees and wasps, the notation has a quite different meaning. The abdominal segments of these insects are made of two plates stapled together; the upper plate is a tergite, the lower plate is a sternite.  The T refers to the tergite, and the 2 refers to the second abdominal<\/em>  segment.  I checked with Lincoln Best, and he confirms that it was this latter interpretation that he intended, which is apparently usual with adult insects.  <\/p>\n

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   How you pronounce tergite would occupy another small essay!<\/p>\n

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   When I was editor of a scientific journal I had a strict rule that all abbreviations must be defined on first mention – no exceptions, no ifs, ans or buts.  No author was allowed to assume that everyone understood what an abbreviation was intended to mean, or that a particular abbreviation was “standard” and need not be defined.   (And by the way, I meant “ans” and not “ands”!) <\/p>\n

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