{"id":785,"date":"2015-06-30T22:49:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T05:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=785"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:04","slug":"june-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 June 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Rob Gowan and I finally managed to get the better of our computers, which were initially doing their best to prevent me from posting his picture of <strong><em>Anarta nigrolunata<\/em><\/strong>. &nbsp;This is a moth of the alpine meadows high in the mountains, and it was photographed by Rob right at the top of Mount Washington during the June 13 VNHS trip there.&nbsp; It has a nice furry thorax, presumably to keep  it warm during the chilly mountain-top nights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"853\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Anarta.jpg\" height=\"418.53866666666664\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cecdf9fb.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\"><em>Anarta nigrolunata <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Rob Gowan<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Back home in Victoria on June 27, Rob photographed an <strong><em>Autographa californica<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>sitting on his garden tap &#8211; presumably a thirsty moth!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 474px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"474\" setheight=\"357\" originalheight=\"2014\" originalwidth=\"2675\" name=\"\" title=\"Autographa cal.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cece042c.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\"><em>Autographa californica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Rob Gowan<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Cheryl Gowan photographed a <strong><em>Hesperumia latipennis<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>in Metchosin on June 29.&nbsp; This is a geometrid, whose caterpillar feeds on Ocean Spray.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1342\" originalwidth=\"1732\" name=\"\" title=\"Hesperumia lat.JPG\" height=\"456.2180138568129\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cece21ea.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\"><em>Hesperumia latipennis <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p> <\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; She also photographed a wasp-mimic beetle in View Royal, June 29, identified for us by Scott Gilmore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"952\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"wasp beetle.JPG\" height=\"467.11466666666666\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cece2f38.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\"><em>Xestoleptura crassicornis <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae) Cheryl Hoyle<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends photographs of a green lacewing <strong><em>Chrysopa <\/em> <\/strong>sp. and a brown lacewing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"310\" setheight=\"514\" style=\"width: 310px; height: 514px;\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" originalheight=\"640\" originalwidth=\"386\" name=\"\" title=\"G lacewing.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cece3be4.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Green lacewing <em>Chrysopa <\/em>sp. (Neu.: Chrysopidae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Annie Pang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"348\" setheight=\"347\" style=\"width: 348px; height: 347px;\" originalheight=\"637\" originalwidth=\"640\" name=\"\" title=\"B lacewing.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cece3e00.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Brown lacewing (Neu.: Hemerobiidae)&nbsp; Annie Pang<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Micromoth specialist Eric LaGasa has recently identified some of the micro moths<\/p>\n<p>that have been photographed recently. Three of them turned out to be <strong><em>Archips rosana<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>One of them was from the Metchosin Bioblitz, so I have forwarded the record to them just in case it&#8217;s an addition.&nbsp; [Added later:&nbsp; Apparently it was!]<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"995\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"AAAMetchosin.JPG\" height=\"488.2133333333333\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cece42fa.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image014.jpg\">Female <em>Archips rosana <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"817\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"AAANo Fold.JPG\" height=\"400.87466666666666\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cece50bb.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image016.jpg\">Female <em>Archips rosana <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"846\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"AAAFold.JPG\" height=\"415.104\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cece5c81.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image018.jpg\">Male<em> Archips rosana <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p> <\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The following three were photographed during the June 13 Mount Washington trip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"941\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"strig Aziza.JPG\" height=\"461.71733333333333\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cece6ebd.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image020.jpg\">Possibly <em>Dicrorampha vancouverana <\/em>(Lep.: Tortricidae)&nbsp; Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"642\" originalwidth=\"792\" name=\"\" title=\"Strig Katz.jpg\" height=\"477.2848484848484\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cece7c49.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image022.jpg\"><em>Ancylis <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Tortricidae) Bill Katz<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Libby Avis suggested the identification of the one below. &nbsp;We saw lots of them on Mount Washington. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 482px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"482\" setheight=\"502\" originalheight=\"751\" originalwidth=\"721\" name=\"\" title=\"White moth.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cece81ac.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image024.jpg\"><em>Eana <\/em>sp.: (Lep.: Tortricidae) &nbsp;Bill Katz<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Adult <strong>Milbert&#8217;s Tortoiseshells <\/strong>started to emerge today from pupae resulting from caterpillars that I found on the Metchosin Bioblitz.&nbsp; &#8216;Fraid I didn&#8217;t manage to photograph an upperside, but here&#8217;s an underside.&nbsp;  I released this one in the Finnerty Gardens (UVic).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"538\" setheight=\"470\" style=\"width: 538px; height: 470px;\" originalheight=\"1046\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"Milbert.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cece945f.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image026.jpg\">Milbert&#8217;s Tortoiseshell <em>Aglais milberti <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jeremy Tatum<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gilmore writes: Last night I found a &quot;giant&quot; click beetle &nbsp;that is almost 2 cm long <strong><em>Athous scissus<\/em><\/strong> wrapped up in a spider web near a black light.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I also found a new to me beetle near a CFL light, <strong><em>Crytarcha ampla<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 249px;\" hasheight=\"false\" setwidth=\"249\" setheight=\"499\" originalheight=\"1230\" originalwidth=\"614\" name=\"\" title=\"P1250818small.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image55931cecea84b.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image028.jpg\"><em>Athous scissus <\/em>(Col.: Elateridae)&nbsp; 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