{"id":10917,"date":"2020-05-27T19:57:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T02:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10917"},"modified":"2020-10-08T09:33:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T16:33:05","slug":"may-27-evening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=10917","title":{"rendered":"May 27 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 May 27 evening
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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeff Gaskin writes: Kirsten Mills and I had a pretty good day butterflying by the Kinsol Trestle and in the South Shawnigan lake area today, May 27.\u00a0 At the Kinsol trestle we found 2 Cedar Hairstreaks, 2 Mylitta Crescents,\u00a0 6 Pale Tiger Swallowtails,\u00a0 2 Western Tiger Swallowtails, <\/strong>a probable Satyr Comma <\/strong>as there was plenty of stinging nettle about, several Western Spring Azures, <\/strong>and of course Cabbage Whites.
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The Stebbings Road, Goldstream Heights was less exciting but still we saw a Propertius Duskywing<\/strong>, a few more Pale Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong>, a Western Tiger Swallowtail<\/strong>, some Western Spring Azures<\/strong>, Cabbage<\/strong> Whites<\/strong>, \u00a0and Kirsten also saw a Painted Lady<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Today, Ron Flower visited the railway line north of Cowichan Station, where he and Nora saw a Mylitta Crescent<\/strong> and a Painted Lady.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Female Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta <\/em> (Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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Painted Lady Vanessa cardui <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae) Ron Flower.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 They also saw two identification problems!\u00a0 The first, shown below, is probably, by default, a Satyr Comma<\/strong>, but we would welcome comments!\u00a0 Unfortunately, they were unable to see or photograph the underside. [Since writing this, I heard from Mark Wynja, who says 8 out of 10 for Satyr Comma.\u00a0 I think that’s good enough to label it such.\u00a0 Nettles are abundant there, but not, I think, gooseberries.]<\/p>\n

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Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Rob Flower<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 What about the next one?\u00a0\u00a0 It is obviously a Parnassian, and we usually assume, by default, that any Parnassian seen not too far from Victoria is a Clodius Parnassian Parnassius clodius<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Note that there are no red spots on the forewing upperside, which is consistent with Parnassius clodius<\/em>.\u00a0 The Rocky Mountain Parnassian P. smintheus <\/em> often has red spots on the forewing \u2013 but need not necessarily have any.\u00a0 Thus the absence of red spots does not tell us which of the two species it is.\u00a0 The antennae of clodius<\/em> are supposed to be black, while those of smintheus <\/em>are chequered black-and-white.\u00a0 What do you think, from the close-up of the antennae? \u00a0We would welcome comments from viewers who are familiar with these two species.\u00a0 In the meantime, I’ll be cautious and label them Parnassius <\/em>sp.\u00a0 The foodplants of both species are common there.<\/p>\n

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Butterflies of the genus Parnassus<\/em> are best called “parnassians” rather than “apollos”.\u00a0 The name “apollo” should be restricted to the particular parnassian species Parnassus apollo<\/em> of Europe, and known there as the Apollo butterfly.<\/p>\n

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Ron\u00a0 and Nora also noted several small blue butterflies there, but were unable to get close enough to identify them.\u00a0 There is a high probability that they are Western Tailed Blues.\u00a0 Further visits to this location might be interesting.\u00a0\u00a0 They did not see any Margined Whites.<\/p>\n

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On the way back, Ron and Nora also saw two Silvery Blues<\/strong> on the lupin patch at the corner of Koksilah Road and the Trans-Canada Highway.<\/p>\n

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Parnassian Parnassius <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n

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Parnassian Parnassius <\/em>sp. (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Ron Flower<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy\u00a0 Tatum walked along Lochside Drive today, from Lohbrunner’s to Roy, and saw just four Western Spring Azures.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He noted quite a few caterpillars of Satyr Comma <\/strong>on the nettles (but no Red Admirals).\u00a0 This looks good as long as Saanich doesn’t cut or spray the verges as they are wont to do.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0At 6:00 pm this evening, he saw four nymphalids frolicking over the Mount Tolmie reservoir.\u00a0 They were all probably Painted Ladies <\/strong>\u00a0– two of them certainly were.<\/p>\n

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Robb Bennett reports that the swallowtail chrysalis shown on May 17 produced an adult butterfly today, and proved to be a Western Tiger Swallowtail.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You can see the empty chrysalis case below the butterfly.<\/p>\n

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Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus <\/em> (Lep.: Papilionidae)\u00a0 Robb Bennett.<\/p>\n

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  2020 May 27 evening   \u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Gaskin writes: Kirsten Mills and I had a pretty good day butterflying by the Kinsol Trestle and in the South Shawnigan lake area today, May 27.\u00a0 At the Kinsol trestle we found 2 Cedar Hairstreaks, 2 Mylitta Crescents,\u00a0 6 Pale Tiger Swallowtails,\u00a0 2 Western Tiger Swallowtails, a […]<\/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-10917","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\/10917","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=10917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12474,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions\/12474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}