{"id":10841,"date":"2020-05-22T10:09:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T17:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10841"},"modified":"2020-05-24T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T23:15:56","slug":"may-22-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10841","title":{"rendered":"May 22 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2020 May 22 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 There are quite a few caterpillars of <strong>Satyr Comma<\/strong> along Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake.\u00a0 I hope this is a sign that the numbers of these butterflies are coming back after a few lean years.\u00a0 One just hopes that Saanich will not cut or spray the verges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-169.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"316.57179487179485\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Satyr Comma <em>Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Jeff Gaskin writes:\u00a0 Yesterday morning,\u00a0 May 21,\u00a0 I found <strong>32 Ringlets<\/strong> in their usual location, Layritz Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary Jorna writes:\u00a0 We were back on the Whiffin Spit today.\u00a0 We saw one\u00a0 <strong>Seven-spotted Lady Beetle<\/strong>\u00a0 but the real surprise was two live <strong> Pacific Sideband<\/strong><strong> Snails<\/strong> and one empty shell in different\u00a0 locations.\u00a0 \u00a0I associate these snails with the forest,\u00a0 but these three were under the vegetation well into the gravelly, grassy harbour side\u00a0 of the trail. This is a harsh exposed environment.\u00a0 The second live snail was much smaller,\u00a0 and it was raining too hard to photograph.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-170.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"372.04358974358973\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Coccinella septempunctata <\/em>(Col.: Coccinellidae)\u00a0 Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-171.png\" width=\"596.8\" height=\"389.25897435897434\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Monadenia fidelis<\/em> (Pul.: Bradybaenidae) Rosemary Jorna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Jochen M\u00f6hr&#8217;s moths from Metchosin yesterday and today:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May 21<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Egira rubrica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 Eupithecia <\/em><\/strong><strong>spp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Eupithecia cretaceata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Melanolophia imitata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Tyria jacobaeae<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Venusia obsoleta\/pearsalli<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Xanthorhoe defensaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May 22<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Apamea cinefacta <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Coryphista meadii<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Eupithecia <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Lacinipolia cuneata\/pensilis <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Melanolophia imitata<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>4 Tyria jacobaeae<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Xanthorhoe defensaria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 381px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-172.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lacinipolia cuneata\/pensilis <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 449px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pastedImage-173.png\" name=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Apamea cinefacta <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 May 22 morning \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 There are quite a few caterpillars of Satyr Comma along Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake.\u00a0 I hope this is a sign that the numbers of these butterflies are coming back after a few lean years.\u00a0 One just hopes that Saanich will not cut or spray [&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-10841","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\/10841","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=10841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10876,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions\/10876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}