{"id":6989,"date":"2018-08-23T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2018-08-23T16:27:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T23:27:02","slug":"august-23-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6989","title":{"rendered":"August 23"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Bryan Gates writes:  At least two of these in my beach-side garden, Saratoga Beach, Black Creek, yesterday afternoon.   Jeremy Tatum adds:  Larval foodplant – Stinging Nettle.<\/p>\n

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Udea profundalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)  Bryan Gates<\/p>\n

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    Jeremy Tatum:  Below is a photograph of Heliothis phloxiphaga<\/em><\/strong>.  This is one of the pale sandy-coloured day-flying moths that one often sees flying over the dunes at Island View Beach and Cordova\/Saanichton Spit.  Larval foodplant – Gumweed.   While I was there this morning, I saw a few Ringlets (Large Heaths) <\/strong>and Woodland Skippers <\/strong>  – but no Branded Skippers or Purplish Coppers.<\/p>\n

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Heliothis phloxiphaga <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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  Jeremy continues:  I am sure that viewers will have noticed the many silken webs of the Fall Webworm <\/strong>Hyphantria cunea<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong> on the trees this year.  There is a particularly spectacular one at the north end of Fowler Park, in which a Black Hawthorn is totally engulfed.  It would make a spectacular photograph for someone.  My own camera isn’t set up for that sort of thing.   Fowler Park is just a tiny area at the north end of Cordova Bay Road, just south of Sayward Road.  The caterpillars are of the genuine woolly bear <\/strong>type.  The adult moth is totally white.  They are not at all related to the tent caterpillars that we see in Spring.<\/p>\n

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   Scott Gilmore writes:    I found a very interesting 4mm long beetle sitting on my car windscreen as I was about to drive away from home yesterday. After looking into it a bit I was able to identify it as Peltodytes callosus <\/em><\/strong>–<\/strong> a member of the family Haliplidae, commonly called the Crawling Water Beetles.  It is the first time I have found this family and normally you would expect to find it in water and not on your car, so this one must have been on the move.<\/p>\n

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Peltodytes callosus <\/em>(Col.: Haliplidae) Scott Gilmore <\/p>\n

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2018 August 23      Bryan Gates writes:  At least two of these in my beach-side garden, Saratoga Beach, Black Creek, yesterday afternoon.   Jeremy Tatum adds:  Larval foodplant – Stinging Nettle.   Udea profundalis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Bryan Gates       Jeremy Tatum:  Below is a photograph of Heliothis phloxiphaga.  This is one of the pale […]<\/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-6989","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\/6989","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=6989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}