{"id":7566,"date":"2019-03-28T19:35:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7566"},"modified":"2019-03-29T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:18:32","slug":"march-28-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7566","title":{"rendered":"March 28 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2019 March 28 evening
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I managed to walk all around Rithet\u2019s Bog this afternoon, without seeing a single butterfly.\u00a0 However, on the way back I saw my first Cabbage White<\/strong> of the year, flying over Shelbourne Street at Feltham.\u00a0 At 4:45 pm there were three California Tortoiseshells <\/strong>hill-topping on the Mount Tolmie reservoir.\u00a0 The same individuals as on March 20, or different?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 Today March 28 we went to the Prospect lake power line, west side, around noon and found two Sara Orangetips<\/strong>. No photo for they wouldn’t settle.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Among the several tiny arthropods photographed by Scott Gilmore in Lantzville in the last few days was a velvet mite<\/strong>. \u00a0We are grateful to Ray Fisher and Heather Proctor of the University of Alberta for identification to probable genus level.\u00a0 Ray Fisher writes:\u00a0 Usually if I can’t see the “face” then I leave open the possibility for Microtrombidiidae. However, in this case, I strongly suspect Allothrombiinae, and probably Allothrombium<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Velvet mite, probably Allothrombium <\/em>sp. (Acari:\u00a0 Trombidiidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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Velvet mite, probably Allothrombium <\/em>sp. (Acari:\u00a0 Trombidiidae)\u00a0 Scott Gilmore<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:\u00a0 After I had no success whatsoever for weeks with leaving my light on at night, this morning suddenly there was a bonanza: more than fifty<\/span> moths on the wall and ceiling!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 What intrigues me no end is why there is all of a sudden this change in abundance.\u00a0 The temperature at night is not much changed, below 10 degrees C.\u00a0 Humidity not much changed – no rain but lots of dew on the grass in the morning.\u00a0 The big maple tree next to the house is starting to bloom.\u00a0 Could that be it?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum comments:\u00a0 No one seems to know why some nights are good moth nights and some aren\u2019t.\u00a0 Everyone seems to have his\/her own theory.\u00a0 As for maples, my experience is that very few moth caterpillars feed on maples – but perhaps the maple inflorescence coming in now may be attractive to adult moths.<\/p>\n

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

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

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Egira crucialis\/simplex <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Egira crucialis\/simplex <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Egira crucialis\/simplex <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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

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Eupithecia ravocostaliata\/nevadata <\/em>(Lep.: Geomtridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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More M\u00f6hr tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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And thanks to Libby Avis for help with the identifications.<\/p>\n

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2019 March 28 evening \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I managed to walk all around Rithet\u2019s Bog this afternoon, without seeing a single butterfly.\u00a0 However, on the way back I saw my first Cabbage White of the year, flying over Shelbourne Street at Feltham.\u00a0 At 4:45 pm there were three California Tortoiseshells hill-topping on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7566","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\/7566","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=7566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7585,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions\/7585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}