{"id":8370,"date":"2019-06-27T19:16:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T02:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8370"},"modified":"2019-06-28T09:52:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:52:43","slug":"june-27-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8370","title":{"rendered":"June 27"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2019 June 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum continues with his story of the extraordinary psychid moth Psyche casta<\/em><\/strong> (see June 26 morning).\u00a0 Last night I took the female moth and her case indoors, and I kept her in an airtight plastic box.\u00a0 This morning she had crawled completely out of the rear end of her case, so I took her and her case outside on to the balcony, and opened the box, to try and get a photograph of her.\u00a0 Within seconds<\/span> a male flew on to the balcony.\u00a0 It was quite astonishing.\u00a0 I did eventually manage to get some sort of a photograph of the female, and anything more unlike an adult moth is hard to imagine.<\/p>\n

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Female Psyche casta <\/em>(Lep.: Psychidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 After so much excitement, here is a more conventional caterpillar \u2013 a young Painted Lady<\/strong> caterpillar from Royal Roads University, well protected in the spiny thistle that she eats.<\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.:\u00a0 Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 But I\u2019m not the only one having an exciting time.\u00a0 Ren, Kirsten, Mike and Jochen have all had exciting finds.\u00a0\u00a0 Ren Ferguson found a caterpillar of the Ceanothus Silk Moth <\/strong>wandering the forest floor on a small private island near Gabriola on June 16.<\/p>\n

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Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus <\/em>(Lep.: Saturniidae)\u00a0 Ren Ferguson<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Kirsten Mills writes:\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin and I were butterflying along Nanaimo River Road yesterday , June 25, and we saw a Sylvan Hairstreak:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sylvan Hairstreak Satyrium sylvinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)<\/p>\n

Kirsten Mills<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Mike Yip writes from Nanoose: I checked a Dogbane patch in Whiskey Creek yesterday and found 9 Grey Hairstreaks, 2 Painted Ladies, 4 Pale Tiger Swallowtails, 2 Western Tiger Swallowtails,<\/strong> and 1 Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong>. I saw a new garden dragonfly today –\u00a0 Pacific Spiketail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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Pacific Spiketail Cordulegaster dorsalis <\/em> (Odo.: Cordulegastridae)\u00a0 Mike Yip<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths in Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Campaea perlata<\/em><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Enypia packardata<\/em><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Homorthodes hanhami<\/em><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Iridopsis larvaria<\/em><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lacinipolia strigicollis<\/em><\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lophocampa maculata<\/em><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nadata gibbosa<\/em><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perizoma curvilinea<\/em><\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pero mizon<\/em><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Protitame subalbaria<\/em><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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In addition to the above, two Yellow Douglas Fir Borers<\/strong> (which have been here for about a week) and a Ten-lined June Beetle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Enypia packardata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Homorthodes hanhami <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Perizoma curvilinea<\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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

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Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)<\/p>\n

Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Campaea perlata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Iridopsis emasculatum <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)<\/p>\n

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Pero mizon <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Polyphylla crinita <\/em>(Col.: Scarabaeidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Centrodera spurca <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Finally, two views of a Large Yellow Underwing<\/strong> moth, from Annie Pang:<\/p>\n

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Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Annie Pang<\/p>\n

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2019 June 27 Jeremy Tatum continues with his story of the extraordinary psychid moth Psyche casta (see June 26 morning).\u00a0 Last night I took the female moth and her case indoors, and I kept her in an airtight plastic box.\u00a0 This morning she had crawled completely out of the rear end of her case, so […]<\/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-8370","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\/8370","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=8370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8394,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370\/revisions\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}