{"id":7081,"date":"2018-09-10T14:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T21:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2018-09-12T17:53:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T00:53:05","slug":"september-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7081","title":{"rendered":"September 10"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2018 September 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Exciting News!<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>On August 28, RBCM staff member Meg Sugrue found a large, dead tropical moth on the road beside the Museum.\u00a0\u00a0 She took it in to show Claudia Copley, and, although it was badly damaged, Claudia identified it as a Black Witch<\/strong>.\u00a0 There are a few previous British Columbia records of this spectacular moth.\u00a0 We had to ask the question as to whether it made its way here under its own steam, so to speak, or whether it was somehow brought up here on a car.\u00a0 Meg tells us that, when she found it, it was still \u201cbleeding\u201d, indicating that it had just been killed shortly before, so that it is likely that it made its own way here.\u00a0 In any case, this is an exciting find by Meg.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 I alerted Jochen M\u00f6hr and Libby Avis, who run UV moth traps, to keep a look-out for the species, and, sure enough, Libby found one at Port Alberni late last night!\u00a0 There must be more of them around \u2013 so keep a look-out for this impressive moth.\u00a0\u00a0 The two found so far are shown below.<\/p>\n

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Female Black Witch Ascalapha odorata<\/em> (Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Erebinae)<\/p>\n

Claudia Copley<\/p>\n

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Male Black Witch Ascalapha odorata<\/em> (Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Erebinae) Libby Avis<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 In other moth news, Jochen sends photographs of the following seven moths from Metchosin last night.\u00a0 Identifications by Libby Avis.<\/p>\n

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

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Possibly a worn Euxoa difformis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The next one is a Drepanulatrix<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>D. monicaria, secundaria<\/em> and falcataria<\/em> are all possibilities, though\u00a0Jeremy Tatum thinks D. monicaria<\/em><\/strong> is the most likely.<\/p>\n

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Drepanulatrix <\/em>(probably monicaria<\/em>)\u00a0 (Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Eulithis xylina <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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

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Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)<\/p>\n

Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 The small caterpillar that Val George photographed on Gumweed at Island View Beach\u00a0 (see September 2 evening entry) is now full grown and is shown again below, its head buried inside a Gumweed flowerhead.<\/p>\n

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Heliothis phloxiphaga <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2018 September 10 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Exciting News!\u00a0\u00a0 On August 28, RBCM staff member Meg Sugrue found a large, dead tropical moth on the road beside the Museum.\u00a0\u00a0 She took it in to show Claudia Copley, and, although it was badly damaged, Claudia identified it as a Black Witch.\u00a0 There are a few previous British Columbia […]<\/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-7081","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\/7081","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=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7098,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}