{"id":10234,"date":"2020-04-06T16:19:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T23:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10234"},"modified":"2020-04-06T16:26:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T23:26:25","slug":"april-6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10234","title":{"rendered":"April 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 April 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jochen reports from Metchosin, April 5:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Acerra normalis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Eupithecia ravocostaliata\/nevadata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Hydriomena manzanita<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Orthosia hibisci<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jochen writes:<strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>I think all are the same individuals recorded on April 5.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But this morning, April 6, Jochen reports <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">  a new one<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Hydriomena manzanita<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Orthosia hibisci<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>1 Spodolepis danbyi<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Xanthorhoe defensaria&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 439px; 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=\"439\" originalheight=\"240\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-5.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 479px; 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=\"479\" originalheight=\"303\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-6.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 527px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em style=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"527\" originalheight=\"594\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-7.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em style=\"\">Spodolepis danbyi <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;   <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen writes:&nbsp; I spent a delightful morning on Single Hill behind our Metchosin house.&nbsp; It is covered in Satin Flowers.&nbsp; There were also numerous&nbsp;different&nbsp;bumblebees and this  <strong>bee fly<\/strong>.<\/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_image008.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"624\" originalheight=\"460\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"439.9487179487179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-8.png\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bee fly <em>Bombylius<\/em> sp. (Dip.: Bombyliidae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Wendy Ansell writes:&nbsp; Gerry and I saw two <strong>Sara Orangetips<\/strong> at the base of Christmas Hill today (Monday April 6).&nbsp; The first one was heading up the hill and flying fast and the second was by the perimeter fence.&nbsp; It flew very fast in a   big circle&nbsp; &#8211; &nbsp;it might have been just one butterfly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8230; and I still haven&#8217;t seen my first butterfly of the year!<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 April 6 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen reports from Metchosin, April 5: &nbsp; 1 Acerra normalis 1 Eupithecia ravocostaliata\/nevadata 2 Hydriomena manzanita 1 Orthosia hibisci &nbsp; Jochen writes:&nbsp; I think all are the same individuals recorded on April 5. &nbsp; But this morning, April 6, Jochen reports a new one: &nbsp; 2 Hydriomena manzanita 2 Orthosia [&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-10234","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\/10234","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=10234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}