{"id":8884,"date":"2019-07-29T16:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T23:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2019-08-01T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T22:12:39","slug":"july-29-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8884","title":{"rendered":"July 29 afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2019 July 29 afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>We start this posting with two difficult ones.\u00a0 First, a rather plain brown butterfly somewhat past its Best Before date, photographed by Gordon Hart in his Highlands garden.\u00a0 We believe it is is a very late Western Brown Elfin<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Incisalia <\/em> <\/strong>(or Callophrys <\/em>if we want this year\u2019s label!) iroides<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Next, a beetle on the outside of a window of a double-decker bus, photographed from the inside by Samantha Hatfield.\u00a0I didn’t think we’d be able to identify it, but thanks to Dave Holden who spotted it a a Banded Alder Borer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Banded Alder Borer\u00a0Rosario funebris<\/em> (Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0 Samantha Hatfield<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019d like to say: Now for some easier ones – but I don\u2019t know what we\u2019d do without the invaluable help of Libby Avis to identify many of the moths appearing on this site.\u00a0 Here is Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s list for this morning, followed by a couple of photographs:<\/p>\n

1 Amorbia cuneanum<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Biston betularia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Callizzia amorata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Dichagyris variabilis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Drepanulatrix <\/em><\/strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Eulithis xylina<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Hesperumia latipennis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Hesperumia sulphuraria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Iridopsis emasculatum<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

11 Lophocampa argentata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

3 Nemoria darwiniata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

3 Panthea virginarius<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

8 Perizoma curvilinea <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Pero mizon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Pyrausta perrubralis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Schizura ipomoeae<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Sicya crocearia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Ypsolopha canariella<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

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\u00a0\u00a0 Here\u2019s another moth photographed recently by Jochen in Metchosin.\u00a0 It is a beautiful moth, with text-book illustration of what are meant by the reniform, orbicular and claviform stigmata! In spite of that, it has not proved easy to identify!\u00a0\u00a0 We are grateful to Dr Lars Crabro for these comments:\u00a0 It’s a slightly odd one. I suspect that it’s Euxoa rockburnei<\/strong><\/em> with reduced black scaling in the cell. Compare:\u00a0http:\/\/pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu\/browse\/family-noctuidae\/subfamily-noctuinae\/tribe-noctuini\/euxoa\/euxoa-rockburnei\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nEuxoa <\/em>(maybe rockburnei<\/em>) (Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/div>\n

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2019 July 29 afternoon \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 We start this posting with two difficult ones.\u00a0 First, a rather plain brown butterfly somewhat past its Best Before date, photographed by Gordon Hart in his Highlands garden.\u00a0 We believe it is is a very late Western Brown Elfin\u00a0 Incisalia (or Callophrys if we want this year\u2019s label!) iroides. […]<\/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-8884","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\/8884","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=8884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8944,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions\/8944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}