{"id":9540,"date":"2019-10-11T16:26:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T23:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9540"},"modified":"2019-10-11T16:36:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T23:36:37","slug":"october-11-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9540","title":{"rendered":"October 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2019 October 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Mr E sends photographs of a larva of the Asian <strong>Many-named Ladybird  <\/strong><strong><em>Harmonia axyridis <\/em><\/strong>from Butchart Gardens, September 22.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"432\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"413.7230769230769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pastedImage-34.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"396\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"379.24615384615385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pastedImage-35.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Harmonia axyridis <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)&nbsp; Mr E<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna writes from Kemp Lake: Yesterday afternoon, October 10, I got to photograph what turned out to be a small brown moth. It came flying toward the trunk of the ornamental&nbsp; cherry in our yard, then its wings started beating at an incredible   speed, occasionally pausing briefly.&nbsp; It was not driven away by the very close proximity of my camera &#8211; it just kept working its way from spot to spot in the bottom 60 cm of the trunk and the litter around it.&nbsp; I did spook it, but it circled back to the cherry   and continued flitting up and down with the very rapid wing beats&nbsp; Then it disappeared under a flap of lichen where I could not see it, but&nbsp;I pointed the camera up under the flap.&nbsp; Is that a flightless female that I have photographed with a male? [Yes &#8211; Jeremy.]   The moth flew out and I was able to get a better shot before it started the search behaviour again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 415px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"415\" originalheight=\"553\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pastedImage-36.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Vapourer or Rusty Tussock <em>Orgyia antiqua <\/em>  (Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Lymantriinae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"443\" originalheight=\"501\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pastedImage-37.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male (left) and Female (right)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Vapourer or Rusty Tussock <em>Orgyia antiqua <\/em>  (Lep.: Erebidae &#8211; Lymantriinae)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>October 9<\/p>\n<p>1 <strong><em>Drepanulatrix<\/em><\/strong> <strong>sp<\/strong>. and&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1 <strong><em>Ceranemota fasciata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>both left over from the day before.<\/p>\n<p>October 10, after a frosty night, NOTHING at all, not even a micro, a wasp or anything.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Libby Avis concurs, from Port Alberni:&nbsp; Nothing showing here either. We&#8217;ve had three or four nights of quite heavy frost. Three  <strong><em>Ceranemota<\/em><\/strong>s stayed around for a few days and I got one <strong>  <em>Epirrita autumnata<\/em><\/strong> two nights ago, but that was it for the week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 October 11 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Mr E sends photographs of a larva of the Asian Many-named Ladybird Harmonia axyridis from Butchart Gardens, September 22. &nbsp; Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)&nbsp; Mr E &nbsp; Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)&nbsp; Mr E &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Rosemary Jorna writes from Kemp Lake: Yesterday afternoon, October 10, I got to photograph what [&hellip;]<\/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-9540","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\/9540","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=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}