{"id":8985,"date":"2019-08-05T10:41:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T17:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8985"},"modified":"2019-08-08T13:48:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:48:49","slug":"august-5-morning-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=8985","title":{"rendered":"August 5 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2019 August 5 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Sorry there was no August 4 posting \u2013 not enough hours in the day to get everything done!<\/p>\n

\u00a0 In the meantime we have made some good progress in the identification of an unknown fly and an unknown beetle in the August 2 afternoon posting (quod vide<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 August 4, Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:\u00a0 When my dog woke me up at 6 am, there were the proverbial \u00a0“oodles” of moths – 5<\/strong> Lophocampa argentata , <\/em><\/strong>3<\/strong> Panthea virginarius, <\/em><\/strong>4 <\/strong>Perizoma curvilinea<\/em><\/strong>, and many many others including probably two dozen micros of several kinds.\u00a0 But at that time it was dark and I was still tired.\u00a0\u00a0When I got up at 8, everybody was gone.\u00a0 Just a Nemoria darwiniata <\/em><\/strong>and a Campaea perlata <\/em> <\/strong>were still there, the latter sometimes fluttering about.\u00a0\u00a0Very unusual, because often they kept sitting there all day.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Then I observed something, which might provide an explanation: A wasp had grabbed the C. perlata<\/em> and was butchering it while it was still very much alive.\u00a0 First it took the wings on one side off, then on the other, then it carried the body off.\u00a0 There was a lot of struggling and movement, so my attempts at documenting it were not very successful.\u00a0 But I attach one picture that I have.<\/p>\n

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Vespula\u00a0<\/em>pensylvanica<\/em> (Hym.: Vespidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Jody Wells photographed this fly sucking mud at Tod Creek Flats on August 3.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t take long to identify it because I knew immediately that it was a tabanid.\u00a0 I am literally quite terrified of tabanids and I felt that fear the instant that I saw the photograph. \u00a0After that, because of its distinctive colour, it didn\u2019t take long to track it down.<\/p>\n

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Tabanus punctifer <\/em>(Dip.: Tabanidae) Jody Wells<\/p>\n

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On Sunday, August 4, nine people went to Mount Tolmie and Island View Beach for the monthly VNHS Butterfly Walk. We found nine species of butterflies. Two were seen only on Mount Tolmie.<\/p>\n

Painted Lady – 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vancouver Island Ringlet – 18<\/strong><\/p>\n

Purplish Copper – 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lorquin’s Admiral – 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anise Swallowtail – 1 (at Mount Tolmie)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Western Tiger Swallowtail – 1 (at Mount Tolmie)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cabbage White – 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Essex Skipper – 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Woodland Skipper \u2013 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Here are some of the butterflies seen:<\/p>\n

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Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon <\/em>(Lep.: Papilionidae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Ringlet Coenonympha tullia <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae \u2013 Satyrinae) Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Purplish Coppers Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Aziza Cooper<\/p>\n

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Purplish Coppers Lycaena helloides <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Also seen during the walk was an interesting Yellow-collared Scape <\/strong>moth of the tribe Lithosiini.<\/p>\n

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Cisseps fulvicollis <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae \u2013 Lithosiini) Aziza Cooper<\/div>\n

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Cisseps fulvicollis <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae \u2013 Lithosiini)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 And we found this caterpillar of\u00a0Heliothis phnloxiphaga<\/strong><\/em> on Gumweed.<\/p>\n

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Heliothis phloxiphaga <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Val George<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 While on the Butterfly Walk at Island View Beach we missed seeing entomologist Sean McCann, who was also there, and who has sent us a bunch of photographs.\u00a0 We\u2019ll put these up on the next posting \u2013 probably this afternoon or evening!<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 One more for this posting \u2013 an interesting observation from Annie Pang, who writes: I was looking for Pine Whites at Esquimalt Gorge Park on August 4 with my camera
\nbuddy when I had this very banged up Cedar Hairstreak<\/strong> land on the
\nGoldenrod nearby briefly.\u00a0 I only had time for a few shots before it
\nvanished. \u00a0I’m very confused about seeing it at all as I’d thought it was an
\nearly spring butterfly.\u00a0 Does it have two flights here??<\/p>\n

Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Well, does it?\u00a0\u00a0 It certainly seemed to have two flights in 2015.\u00a0 See the 2015 Butterfly Report, posted on 2016 January 26 (currently on page 192, though this, of course, increases with time).\u00a0 I haven\u2019t looked up Reports for other years (task for someone?), though I don\u2019t think there are many other August sightings other than 2015. Is Annie\u2019s \u201cbanged-up\u201d butterfly a second generation, or a survivor from a spring generation?<\/p>\n

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

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  2019 August 5 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Sorry there was no August 4 posting \u2013 not enough hours in the day to get everything done! \u00a0 In the meantime we have made some good progress in the identification of an unknown fly and an unknown beetle in the August 2 afternoon posting (quod vide). \u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/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-8985","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\/8985","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=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9048,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions\/9048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}