{"id":7697,"date":"2019-04-15T15:51:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T22:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7697"},"modified":"2019-04-15T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T22:57:21","slug":"april-15-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7697","title":{"rendered":"April 15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>Jane Cameron sends a photograph of a Pillbug <\/strong>from her patio door.  Although it is not, of course, a bug, we can call it a “pillbug” as long as it is one word, just as we use “dragonfly” and “butterfly” although they are not flies.  The spellings  pill  bug, dragon  fly and butter  fly won’t do!<\/p>\n

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Common Pillbug Armadillidium vulgare <\/em>(Isopoda: Armadillidiidae)<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum sends photographs of a noctuid caterpillar found yesterday on Snowberry along Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake.  It belongs to the subfamily Plusiinae – most of whose members have only two pairs of mid-abdominal prolegs instead of the usual four.  The most familiar plusiine here is Autographa californica.<\/em>  <\/em>However, I am almost certain (we’ll await emergence of the adult moth to be absolutely certain) that this is Autographa ampla<\/em><\/strong>.   Further, it’s a boy!<\/p>\n

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Autographa ampla <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Autographa ampla <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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  Rosemary Jorna found this spider yesterday in the Sooke Hills.  Robb Bennett writes:  The spider is an immature male anyphaenid. There are two species in British Columbia : Anyphaena aperta<\/em><\/strong> (Banks) and Anyphaena pacifica<\/em> (Banks). Both are common, especially in conifer woodlands, but I think aperta<\/em><\/strong> is the one most frequently seen here on the south coast.<\/p>\n

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Anyphaena <\/em>sp. (probably aperta<\/em>)  (Ara.: Anyphaenidae)  Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n

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   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I have seen three<\/span> butterflies today. The last butterflies reported on this site were Val’s Western Spring Azures on April 9, and I haven’t seen one since a brief glimpse of a Satyr Comma on April 4.  Today I saw a Cabbage White <\/strong>crossing McKenzie Avenue  <\/strong>just east of the McKenzie interchange.   Then near the transformer end of the Munn Road pond I saw a Western Spring Azure <\/strong>(I had forgotten how stunningly blue they are!) and a Milbert’s Tortoiseshell.<\/strong>  <\/strong>I don’t know when I last saw one of these – I don’t think I saw one last year.  It may not hang around for long, because I don’t think there are any nettles nearby.<\/p>\n

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   Also at Munn Road were a very few Mesoleuca gratulata, Epirrhoe plebeculata<\/em><\/strong> and Leptostales rubromarginaria<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>  I don’t believe the caterpillars of the latter two species are known.  Neither oviposited for me today.<\/p>\n

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