{"id":8511,"date":"2019-07-05T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8511"},"modified":"2019-07-05T16:06:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T23:06:37","slug":"july-5-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8511","title":{"rendered":"July 5 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2019 July 5 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hello Butterfly Watchers,
This is a reminder for the July Butterfly Walk<\/strong> to take place on Sunday, July 7, at 1 p.m<\/strong> . We meet near the Mount Tolmie summit<\/strong> by the reservoir parking lot. After a look around the summit area, we will decide on a destination from there. <\/span><\/p>\n

For details and updates, see the VNHS calendar: <\/span>https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?page_id=1518<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

See you on Sunday,<\/span><\/p>\n

Gordon <\/span><\/p>\n

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Gordon Hart,<\/span><\/p>\n

Victoria Natural History Society <\/span><\/p>\n

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   <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum shows a picture of a Painted Lady <\/strong>caterpillar preparing to pupate:<\/p>\n

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

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   Just three hours after the above photograph was taken, the caterpillar had pupated, and the chrysalis looked like this:<\/p>\n

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

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   In another two hours or so the chrysalis will develop a shiny gold (Greek chrysos<\/em> = gold) colour.<\/p>\n

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  Judith Sales has given me two moth pupae that she found while raking the detritus under a Garry Oak in her Cedar Hill Road garden.  The larger, black one is certainly Catocala aholibah<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>  <\/strong>The other one seems slightly smaller, slightly slimmer, and a slightly different colour.  However, I can’t think what else it might be, and I believe it is another C. aholibah<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>  <\/strong>I’ll have to wait until the moths eclode (new fancy word for emerge) but I suspect that the bigger, stouter, black one will turn out to be a female, and the smaller, slimmer, brown one will turn out to be a male of the same species, Catocala aholibah. <\/em> <\/strong>See also the account of Udea turmalis <\/em>below.<\/p>\n

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Catocala aholibah <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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   <\/em><\/strong>“Aholibah” is an unusual name. The second syllable is stressed. You will find reference to the name in one of the naughtier parts of the Holy Bible (King James Version, Ezekiel Chapter 23):<\/p>\n

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 23: 1<\/sup>The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,<\/p>\n

2 <\/sup>Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:<\/p>\n

3 <\/sup>And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.<\/p>\n

4 <\/sup>And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah. <\/p>\n

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   Jeremy continues, unabashed:  Here is a photograph of another  Udea turmalis.<\/strong><\/em>  <\/strong>I think it is rather larger than the one shown on July 3.  There is a size difference between the sexes of many butterflies and moths, the female (who has to carry ova) usually being larger.  Unfortunately I didn’t measure the July 3 one.  Today’s one, shown below, was 19 mm from the tips of the labial palpi to the apex of the forewings.   (If you don’t know what labial palpi are, have a look at the photo; have a guess, and you’ll probably be right.)  These two moths were reared from a dense mass of 11 caterpillars crammed together with masses of frass in the head of an Edible Thistle Cirsium edule<\/em>.  Sorry the palpi are out of focus – wrong camera setting!<\/p>\n

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Udea turmalis <\/em>(Lep.: Crambidae)  Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

More tomorrow…<\/p>\n

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