{"id":9030,"date":"2019-08-07T15:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T22:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2019-08-08T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:12:37","slug":"august-7-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9030","title":{"rendered":"August 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2019 August 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Ted Dobie\u2019s caterpillar of <strong><em>Orgyia pseudotsugata<\/em><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>shown on July 21, and again when full grown in close-up on August 1 afternoon, has now pupated in a silken cocoon, incorporating some of the larval hairs.\u00a0 The adult moth will probably eclode in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pastedImage-80.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"364.88076923076926\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Orgyia pseudotsugata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Lymantriinae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy continues:\u00a0 This morning I visited the Nature Houses at Swan Lake and in Goldstream Park, and I found one moth at each.\u00a0 This one at Swan Lake:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 500px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pastedImage-81.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Neoalcis californiaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;and this one at Goldstream Park, confirmed by Libby Avis as a <strong>Peppered Moth <em>Biston betularia<\/em><\/strong><em>.\u00a0 <\/em>After millions of years of Darwinian evolution by variation and natural selection, this one seems to have evolved perfect cryptic coloration for a concrete background!<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pastedImage-82.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"363.92307692307696\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em>Biston betularia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two photographs of a <strong>Silver-spotted Tiger Moth <\/strong><strong><em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em><\/strong>by Bill McMillan:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 554px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pastedImage-83.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Bill McMillan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 506px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pastedImage-84.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lophocampa argentata <\/em>(Lep.: Erebidae \u2013 Arctiinae)\u00a0 Bill McMillan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 A miscellany from Cheryl Hoyle:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 546px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pastedImage-85.png\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Honey Bee <em>Apis mellifera <\/em>(Hym.: Apidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 535px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pastedImage-86.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"\" style=\"width: 571px; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pastedImage-87.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eristalinus aeneus <\/em>(Dip.: Syrphidae)\u00a0 Cheryl Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths in Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>1 Campaea perlata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>1\u00a0Eulithis xylina<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>4 Perizoma curvilinea\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>1 Nemoria darwiniata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He writes:<strong> Pine Whites<\/strong> are now regularly fluttering up here at 160 to 200 m above sea level.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 August 7 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0\u00a0 Ted Dobie\u2019s caterpillar of Orgyia pseudotsugata, shown on July 21, and again when full grown in close-up on August 1 afternoon, has now pupated in a silken cocoon, incorporating some of the larval hairs.\u00a0 The adult moth will probably eclode in a couple of weeks. 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