{"id":7114,"date":"2018-09-15T19:46:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T02:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7114"},"modified":"2018-09-15T19:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T02:48:11","slug":"september-15-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7114","title":{"rendered":"September 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 September 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Continuing the saga on the <em>Triphosa haesitata  <\/em>\/<em> Coryphista meadii<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em>identification problem, Ron Flower sends a picture, from Goldstream Park last week, of one of the forms of  <em>C<\/em><em><strong>oryphista meadii <\/strong><\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>that cannot (we hope!) be confused with  <em>T. haesitata<\/em>.&nbsp; Would that all <em>meadii<\/em> were of this form!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&nbsp;<br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><\/em><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"moth (7) (Large).JPG\" originalwidth=\"934\" originalheight=\"734\" width=\"544.8\" height=\"428.14047109207706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/moth-7-Large.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Coryphista me<\/em><em>adii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp;&nbsp; Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Val George writes:&nbsp; A couple of days ago, Sept 12, this  <strong><em>Chlorochroa<\/em><\/strong><strong> Stink Bug<\/strong> was in my Oak Bay garden.&nbsp; I suspect it is a<em>  <\/em>&#8220;sp.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Agreed, but most likely <strong><em>C. uhleri <\/em>  <\/strong>rather than <em>sayi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 605px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"Stink Bug (Chlorochroa sp.).JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"793\" width=\"544.8\" height=\"360.022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Stink-Bug-Chlorochroa-sp..jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stink Bug <em>Chlorochroa <\/em>(probably <em>uhleri<\/em>) (Hem.: Pentatomidae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum notes a few <strong>Cabbage Whites <\/strong>  today at Maber and Martindale Flats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Alanah Nasadyk writes:&nbsp; I found this handsome moth in the spikemoss going up towards Sugarloaf Mountain in the Sooke Hills.&nbsp; Libby Avis kindly identified it for us as  <strong><em>Mesogona olivata<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>a moth that occurs in dry Garry Oak type habitat, Garry Oak being one of the larval foodplants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 587px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"DSCN9275.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"900\" width=\"544.8\" height=\"408.59999999999997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN9275.jpg\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mesogona olivata <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Alanah Nasadyk    <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 September 15 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Continuing the saga on the Triphosa haesitata \/ Coryphista meadii&nbsp; identification problem, Ron Flower sends a picture, from Goldstream Park last week, of one of the forms of Coryphista meadii &nbsp;that cannot (we hope!) be confused with T. haesitata.&nbsp; Would that all meadii were of this form! 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