{"id":8076,"date":"2019-05-27T19:31:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T02:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2019-08-31T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T16:19:09","slug":"may-27-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8076","title":{"rendered":"May 27"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2019 May 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths in Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n

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Hydriomena marinata<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n1<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lacinipolia cuneata<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n1<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lacinipolia patalis<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n1<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lithophane petulca\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n1<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nadata gibbosa<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n1<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Panthea virginarius<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n4<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perizoma curvilinea<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n2<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selenia alciphearia<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n2<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen writes from his Metchosin property: At least three times a large swallowtail<\/strong> came by.\u00a0 It might have been a Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong> (or several of them).\u00a0 But none ever settled so I was not able to get a picture or to identify it clearly.\u00a0\u00a0Many blues<\/strong> were playing around, up to four seen simultaneously, often pairs playing with each other, but never ever settling, so again no pics.\u00a0\u00a0 At least two Cedar Hairstreaks <\/strong>were there, much easier to approach, and I got many pics, of which I particularly like\u00a0that of the one of that landed on the handle of my rake (attached).\u00a0\u00a0There were also constantly several Cabbage Whites. <\/strong>\u00a0The most amazing and encouraging was an abundance of Adela septentrionella<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 On the slope, there are at least a dozen bunches of daisies in full bloom or working up to it.\u00a0 In each of the bunches there were some four to ten A. septentrionella<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 I also took pictures of Broom Seed Beetles<\/strong>, a very tiny ladybeetle<\/strong>, and a dragonfly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum comments:\u00a0 I have never noticed the yellow tarsi before.\u00a0 I wonder if that is their natural colour, or whether it is pollen.<\/p>\n

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Male Cabbage White\u00a0 Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Female Cabbage White\u00a0 Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Broom Seed Beetle Bruchidius villosus <\/em>(Col.: Chrysomelidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor <\/em> (Odo.: Aeshnidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Western Blood-red Ladybeetle Cycloneda polita <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Val George writes:\u00a0 Yesterday, May 26, there were two rather worn Western Brown Elfins<\/strong> at the summit of Mount Tolmie.\u00a0 Other butterflies there:\u00a0 2 Pale Tiger Swallowtails, 1 Western Tiger Swallowtail, 1 Anise Swallowtail, 2 Painted Ladies, 1 Western Spring Azure, 2 Cabbage Whites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a Herald Moth<\/strong> from Goldstream Park Nature House this morning.\u00a0 The Herald is a moth that hibernates during the winter as an adult moth.\u00a0 Thus the moth can be seen in the fall, and again early in the year, when it \u201cheralds\u201d in the spring.\u00a0 May 27 seems rather a late spring date for this moth.\u00a0 Larval foodplant:\u00a0 willow.\u00a0 Also nearby was a Perizoma curvilinea, <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and a curious moth that I hadn\u2019t seen before, identified by Libby Avis as\u00a0 limacodid, Tortricidia testacea<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong> Libby says that they nearly always sit in this remarkable fashion.<\/p>\n

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Herald Moth Scoliopteryx libatrix <\/em>(Erebidae \u2013 Scoliopteryginae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Perizoma curvilinea <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Tortricidia testacea <\/em>(Lep.: Limacodidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy continues:\u00a0 I showed a Lorquin\u2019s Admiral <\/strong>caterpillar on May 15 and 17, and the chrysalis on May 18.\u00a0 This afternoon the butterfly emerged.\u00a0 It is shown below hanging from its empty chrysalis case.<\/p>\n

The butterfly is now flying in Playfair Park, where it has a variety of nectar choices.<\/p>\n

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Lorquin\u2019s Admiral Limenitis lorquini <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 When I was in Playfair Park I saw two twig-mimic geometrid caterpillars, of different species, sitting right in the same place on a Snowberry twig.\u00a0 Then on the very next Snowberry bush I found another twig-mimic geometrid, of a third species. Here they are:<\/p>\n

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Upper:\u00a0 Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

Lower: Hemithea aestivaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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Sicya crocearia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) \u00a0Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Ken Vaughan writes:\u00a0 Here’s a couple of geometrids from around my apartment building this
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\u00a0<\/em>Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Cyclophora dataria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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2019 May 27 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths in Metchosin this morning: \u00a0 Hydriomena marinata 1 Lacinipolia cuneata 1 Lacinipolia patalis 1 Lithophane petulca\u00a0 1 Nadata gibbosa 1 Panthea virginarius 4 Perizoma curvilinea 2 Selenia alciphearia 2 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen writes from his Metchosin property: At least three times a large swallowtail came by.\u00a0 It […]<\/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-8076","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\/8076","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=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9213,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions\/9213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}