{"id":10393,"date":"2020-04-19T07:06:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10393"},"modified":"2020-04-21T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:58:05","slug":"april-18-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10393","title":{"rendered":"April 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 April 18<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I visited the pond near the Pike Lake Substation on Munn Road this afternoon.\u00a0 I saw just two <strong>Western Spring Azures<\/strong> and one <strong>Sara Orangetip.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Also a few damselflies and mayflies. Perhaps the most interesting thing was that I watched two Wandering Shrews at length and at close quarters \u2013 but since they have backbones, they are not allowed on this site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Cerastis enigmatica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Cladara limitaria <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Egira curialis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Egira crucialis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>6 Epithecias\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Feralia comstocki<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Melanolophia imitata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Orthosia hibisci<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Perizoma curvilinea <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>6 Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-116.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cerastis enigmatica <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-117.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"570.9769230769231\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cladara limitaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-118.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira crucialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-119.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egira curialis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-120.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"309.87692307692305\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eupithecia ravocostaliata<\/em>\/<em>nevadata <\/em> (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-121.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"295.53076923076924\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably <em>Eupithecia nevadata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-122.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Feralia comstocki<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-123.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"369.17435897435894\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Hart sends photographs of a male <strong>Sara Orangetip<\/strong> and a <strong>California Tortoiseshell <\/strong>\u00a0from Mount Tolmie today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-124.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"447.59999999999997\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Male Sara Orangetip <em>Anthocharis sara <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-125.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"447.59999999999997\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">California Tortoiseshell <em>Nymphalis californica <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Gordon Hart<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Ron Flower writes:\u00a0 Today April 18 we went to Gore Park where there were many <strong>Western Spring<\/strong> <strong>Azures <\/strong>and our first dragonfly of the year.\u00a0 [Jeremy Tatum says:\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try and post the dragonfly tomorrow!]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-126.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"413.16923076923075\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Spring Azure <em>Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pastedImage-127.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"494.4641025641025\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Spring Azure <em>Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More tomorrow\u00a0&#8211; I didn&#8217;t have time to post everything!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; J<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 April 18 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I visited the pond near the Pike Lake Substation on Munn Road this afternoon.\u00a0 I saw just two Western Spring Azures and one Sara Orangetip.\u00a0 Also a few damselflies and mayflies. Perhaps the most interesting thing was that I watched two Wandering Shrews at length and at [&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-10393","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\/10393","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=10393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10456,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393\/revisions\/10456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}