{"id":6689,"date":"2018-07-22T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T22:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2018-07-22T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T22:54:07","slug":"july-22-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6689","title":{"rendered":"July 22"},"content":{"rendered":"
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July 22<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Two more moths from Metchosin, sent by Jochen M\u00f6hr.<\/p>\n

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Hydriomena californiata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Johen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Note the mite at the base of the left hand forewing.<\/p>\n

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Welsh Wave\u00a0 Venusia cambrica <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The small moth below, which ecloded (emerged) today, was from the caterpillar that Val George found on Mentha<\/em> in his Oak Bay garden, illustrated on July 6 and 7.\u00a0 The moth is quite variable \u2013 compare the photo that Val took of a moth of this species from his garden on July 2, and probably from the same batch.<\/p>\n

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Pyrausta californicalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a moth from View Royal and a grasshopper from Metchosin, July 21.<\/p>\n

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Zale lunata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Erebinae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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Dissosteira carolina<\/em> (Orth.: Acrididae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Butterflies are a bit scarce just now.\u00a0 Cabbage Whites are ubiquitous.\u00a0 There are still Lorquin\u2019s Admirals and Western Tiger Swallowtails around.\u00a0\u00a0 Pine Whites and Woodland Skippers are just starting.\u00a0 Please keep reporting Lorquin\u2019s Admirals and Western Tiger Swallowtails, familiar though they may be, so that we can get a handle on the last dates.\u00a0\u00a0 Here\u2019s a Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> from The Gorge Tillicum area, July 19:<\/p>\n

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Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This just in from Gordon Hart \u2013 computer glitch delayed it for a couple of days:\u00a0 On Wednesday July 18, at home, I saw two Pine Whites<\/strong>, a Grey Hairstreak<\/strong>, several Lorquin\u2019s Admirals<\/strong>, a Pale Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>, several Cabbage Whites<\/strong>, and five Woodland Skippers<\/strong>. Today, July 20, at the Pike Lake Substation ponds, I checked patches of Spreading Dogbane and found 11 Woodland Skippers<\/strong>.\u00a0 There were only one or two Lorquin\u2019s Admirals<\/strong> flying. I saw two or three Sheep Moths<\/strong> flying furiously by, or perhaps the same one. I am attaching photos of a Pine White<\/strong> from home today nectaring on Heliotrope, and one of the Woodland Skippers<\/strong> on Dogbane flowers.<\/p>\n

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Pine White Neophasia menapia <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And this just in from Jeff Gaskin:\u00a0 Yesterday, July 21, 2018, I saw 35 Pine Whites<\/strong> at Witty\u2019s Lagoon Park also including Tower Point. \u00a0Plus I saw a further 110 Pine Whites<\/strong> at Royal Roads University.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 …and that\u2019s about all I can manage today!\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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July 22 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Two more moths from Metchosin, sent by Jochen M\u00f6hr. Hydriomena californiata (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Johen M\u00f6hr \u00a0\u00a0 Note the mite at the base of the left hand forewing. Welsh Wave\u00a0 Venusia cambrica (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr   \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The small moth below, which ecloded (emerged) today, was from the […]<\/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-6689","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\/6689","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=6689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6700,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}