{"id":6954,"date":"2018-08-20T19:07:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T02:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2018-08-20T19:16:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T02:16:24","slug":"august-20-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6954","title":{"rendered":"August 20 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a photograph, from Metchosin, of a noctuid moth below.  Libby Avis writes that it is one of the Xestia finatimis<\/em><\/strong> species group.  I.e. one of three very similar species – X. finatimis, X. infimatis and X. verniloides.<\/em><\/strong>  <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Xestia <\/em>sp.: (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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   And just in, two more moths from Jochen:<\/p>\n

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Oligia divesta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Pero mizon <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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   Marie O’Shaughnessy writes:  I was in Uplands Park this morning and found four of these diminutive creatures, Woodland Skippers<\/strong>, along with one Cabbage White<\/strong>.  No other butterflies were seen during my hour of watching the birds.<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Yes, unless we get a late invasion of sulphurs or something, the butterfly season seems to be coming to a close, and we are by now almost restricted to Woodland Skippers and Cabbage Whites.  Be sure to report any other butterflies that you might see.  (Since I wrote that this morning, August 20, this afternoon I saw a Ringlet (Large Heath)<\/strong> and a Lorquin’s Admiral <\/strong>at Rithet’s Bog.)<\/p>\n

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

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a caterpillar found at Maber Flats:<\/p>\n

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Peppered Moth Biston betularia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jermy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   New Book<\/strong>   <\/strong>Libby Avis draws our attention to a new book on Pacific Northwest insects.  You can see details at  https:\/\/www.ubcpress.ca\/pacific-northwest-insects<\/a>       Although that site says that the release date of the book is August 15, it won’t be available in Canada until September 1.<\/p>\n

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2018 August 20 evening      Jochen M\u00f6hr sends a photograph, from Metchosin, of a noctuid moth below.  Libby Avis writes that it is one of the Xestia finatimis species group.  I.e. one of three very similar species – X. finatimis, X. infimatis and X. verniloides.    Xestia sp.: (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen M\u00f6hr      […]<\/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-6954","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\/6954","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=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}