{"id":6582,"date":"2018-07-09T16:27:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T23:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2018-07-09T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T23:42:11","slug":"jujne-9-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6582","title":{"rendered":"July 9 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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July 9 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Gordon Hart writes that he saw a California Tortoiseshell<\/strong> in his yard yesterday, Sunday July 8. He saw it through binoculars but could not get close enough for a photo. It was flying around California Lilac (Ceanothus<\/em>).\u00a0 This is exciting, since Ceanothus<\/em> is the larval foodplant.\u00a0 Had there been caterpillars on Gordon\u2019s Ceanothus<\/em>?\u00a0\u00a0 Or was the butterfly contemplating laying eggs on it?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Annie Pang sends a picture of a spider seen on June 22.\u00a0 Thanks to Rob Bennett, who writes:\u00a0 It’s a theridiid, I think most likely Enoplognatha ovata<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 They come in a variety of colour\/patterning morphs – watch for ones with some amount of red striping on their abdomens.<\/p>\n

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Probably Enoplognatha ovata <\/em>(Ara.: Theridiidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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More of Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moth photographs from Metchosin .\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to Libby Avis for identification.<\/p>\n

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Mythimna <\/em>or Leucania <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Bellura obliqua <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Panthea virginarius <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Smerinthus cerisyi <\/em>(Lep.: Sphingidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Some recent authors list the West Coast form of this hawk moth under Smerinthus ophthalmica<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 To change the captions on all the photographs on this site and all the Index entries would be a formidable task, against which must be asked how convincing is the split at species level?\u00a0 While there may be small discernible differences between disjunct populations of the species, are these differences significant enough to bestow upon them species status, rather than subspecies?\u00a0 Indeed, are our moths significantly different at the species level from the European Smerinthus ocellata<\/em>?\u00a0 Professor Joad might have remarked: \u201cIt all depends on what you mean by species\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0– a remark very pertinent in light of the several types of \u201cspecies concept\u201d currently in vogue. For consistency within this site (and to avoid a huge amount of perhaps unnecessary work) I am retaining the name S. cerisyi<\/em> here.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 We often think of a typical hawk moth as a moth with an immensely long haustellum (proboscis).\u00a0 After all, did not Darwin predict the existence of a hawk moth with a very long proboscis before its actual discovery?\u00a0\u00a0 Interestingly, hawk moths of the tribe Smerinthini have no functional haustellum at all, and do not feed as adults.<\/p>\n

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July 9 evening \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart writes that he saw a California Tortoiseshell in his yard yesterday, Sunday July 8. He saw it through binoculars but could not get close enough for a photo. It was flying around California Lilac (Ceanothus).\u00a0 This is exciting, since Ceanothus is the larval foodplant.\u00a0 Had there been caterpillars […]<\/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-6582","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\/6582","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=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6590,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions\/6590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}