{"id":10801,"date":"2020-05-19T19:41:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T02:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2020-05-21T15:12:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T22:12:02","slug":"may-19-evening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10801","title":{"rendered":"May 19 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 May 19 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Mark Wynja writes from Parksville:\u00a0 On May 26, 2019, I saw a Dreamy Duskywing<\/strong> land along the side of the logging road to Rhododendron\u00a0Lake. After a very brief observation (no photo), it flew away and was not seen again. This road is reached on the weekends via the NW Bay Logging Road. \u00a0I looked for this species numerous times last year and again this year. Then late yesterday (May 18th) I found at least two individuals and was able finally to get photos.<\/p>\n

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Dreamy Duskywing Erynnis icelus <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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Dreamy Duskywing Erynnis icelus <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Mark’s next photograph (writes Jeremy Tatum) shows that, like the Propertius Duskywing, many of the pale spots on the wings of these skippers are translucent.\u00a0 (Photographers of \u00a0Propertius Duskywing \u2013 see if you can get a photo like this, from underneath, showing the translucent spots,)\u00a0 The exact distribution of these translucent spots helps in the identification of several Erynnis <\/em>species.\u00a0 Here there are none in the basal half to two-thirds of each wing.\u00a0 This is the first report of Erynnis icelus<\/em> in this Invertebrate Alert site.\u00a0 Although at first glance it looks somewhat similar to E. propertius<\/em>, it is a much smaller butterfly.<\/p>\n

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Dreamy Duskywing Erynnis icelus <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)\u00a0 Mark Wynja<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Judy Spearing writes:\u00a0 I Just found four of these caterpillars by my large Red Elderberry shrub. Any
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Jeremy Tatum replies:\u00a0 It is the caterpillar of the Elder Moth <\/strong> Zotheca tranquilla<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Elder Moth Zotheca tranquilla <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Here is a cocoon of a plutellid moth, on an oak leaf from Christmas Hill.\u00a0 We don’t (yet) know the species.<\/p>\n

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Plutellid cocoon (Lep.: Plutellidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes: I visited the Silvery Blue <\/strong>colony at the Colwood cut-off from the Trans-Canada Highway this afternoon.\u00a0 Almost every lupin head bore several\u00a0 (even a dozen or more) ova.\u00a0 I saw about half-a-dozen adult butterflies.<\/p>\n

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Egg of Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus <\/em> (Lep.: Lycaenidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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2020 May 19 evening \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Mark Wynja writes from Parksville:\u00a0 On May 26, 2019, I saw a Dreamy Duskywing land along the side of the logging road to Rhododendron\u00a0Lake. After a very brief observation (no photo), it flew away and was not seen again. This road is reached on the weekends via the NW […]<\/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-10801","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\/10801","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=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10828,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions\/10828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}