{"id":6737,"date":"2018-07-26T15:36:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6737"},"modified":"2018-08-02T16:07:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T23:07:31","slug":"july-26-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6737","title":{"rendered":"July 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>July 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Re the mites on geometrid moths, as shown on July 22 and 25, I am told that \u201cErythraeids, particularly members of the subfamily Leptinae,\u00a0 quite commonly parasitize Lepidoptera, but not with any obvious host specificity. This is probably an erythraeid based on its being bright red.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t quote me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 -so I shan\u2019t say who it is, other than what the press would call a \u201cusually reliable source\u201d!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart sends a picture of a <strong>Scallop Shell Moth<\/strong> from the Highlands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 569px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"nice moth.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nice-moth.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"403.1039999999999\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Scallop Shell <em>Rheumaptera undulata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a picture of <strong><em>Tolype distincta<\/em><\/strong> from Metchosin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tolype distincta.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Tolype-distincta.jpg\" width=\"592.8\" height=\"357.162\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tolype distincta <\/em>(Lep.: Lasiocampidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen also writes:\u00a0 <strong>Woodland Skippers<\/strong> have been around here for a few days now.\u00a0 Today was the first time I managed to get a picture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 438px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 496px;\" title=\"Ochlodes sylvanoides.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ochlodes-sylvanoides.jpg\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Woodland Skipper <em>Ochlodes sylvanoides <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 26 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Re the mites on geometrid moths, as shown on July 22 and 25, I am told that \u201cErythraeids, particularly members of the subfamily Leptinae,\u00a0 quite commonly parasitize Lepidoptera, but not with any obvious host specificity. This is probably an erythraeid based on its being bright red.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t quote me!\u201d \u00a0\u00a0 [&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-6737","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\/6737","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=6737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6788,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions\/6788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}